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" Genius is talent set on fire by courage. "

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" I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly. "

" In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. "

" There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. "

Geraldine Brooks

" 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

" I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. "

" You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live. "

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

" Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. "

" Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. "

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

Janeane Garofalo

" Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. "

" Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. "

" The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. "

" So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets. "

" When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. "

" You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. "

William J. H. Boetcker

" September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. "

Geraldine Brooks

" The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them. "

" The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. "

" Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail. "

" Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life. "

" I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected. "

Caroline Kennedy

" I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage. "

" Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.' "

Orison Swett Marden

" When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though. "

" Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

" In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. "

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

Jean Baudrillard

" Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' "

" I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. "

" Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. "