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" Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. "

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" I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me. "

" Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. "

" One man with courage is a majority. "

Thomas Jefferson

" He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! "

" Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages. "

Richard Paul Evans

" Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. "

" I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. "

" St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn. "

Mother Angelica

" Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation. "

" The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. "

" There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions. "

" With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that. "

" Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. "

" To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. "

Georgia O'Keeffe

" Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free. "

" I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. "

Elizabeth Taylor

" Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. "

Robert Falcon Scott

" No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that. "

" The simple act of caring is heroic. "

" If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window. "

" A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. "

" If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. "

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

" An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. "

Joseph Pulitzer

" What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity. "

" What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? "

Logan Pearsall Smith

" I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection. "

" Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford. "

George Matthew Adams

" There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. "