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" Enthusiasm is a form of social courage. "

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" Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. "

" Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" 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 what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. "

Winston Churchill

" From caring comes courage. "

" 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

" Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life. "

Simone Signoret

" Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a 'nobody' - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is. "

" The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. "

" Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. "

" We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends. "

" Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. "

" The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans. "

" I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people. "

" Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers. "

" Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally. "

" I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" You can't test courage cautiously. "

" Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. "

" I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers. "

" Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. "

Charles Luckman

" All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop. "

" The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed. "

" Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children. "

" Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. "

" It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. "

" My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. "

" 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.' "

" Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. "

Jean Baudrillard

" The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. "

Mercy Otis Warren