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" Have the courage to act instead of react. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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" People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?' "

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" Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. "

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" Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. "

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" Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. "

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" Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. "

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" All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. "

" It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. "

" 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. "

" All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage. "

" I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage. "

" Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. "

" 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. "

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" Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. "

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" The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody. "

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" Courage easily finds its own eloquence. "

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