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" Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. "

Arthur Koestler

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" There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. "

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" God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. "

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" To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. "

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" My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions. "

" The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. "

Arthur Koestler

" And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working. "

" To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. "

" Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. "

" In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. "

" It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years. "

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

" I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I'm enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living. "

" Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. "

" Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. "

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" I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society. "

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" It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. "

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Napoleon Bonaparte

" The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently. "

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" Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. "

George Bernard Shaw

" You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "