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" Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. "

Christopher Reeve

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" Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. "

" Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances. "

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" Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. "

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" I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed. "

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" Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. "

Herbert Kaufman

" Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back. "

Thomas a Kempis

" The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. "

" To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. "

Janeane Garofalo

" In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. "

" Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. "

" Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. "

" There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. "

Van Wyck Brooks

" He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. "

Miguel de Cervantes

" One man with courage is a majority. "

Thomas Jefferson

" In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. "

" The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis. "

" In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking. "

John T. Chambers

" School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals. "

" When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. "

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" I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. "

Catherine the Great

" The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. "

" The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. "

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" The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something. "

" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "

" Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. "

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" At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section. "

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" People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.' "

" If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses. "

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