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" Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. "

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" One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. "

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

" What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? "

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" Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses. "

" Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival. "

" I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. "

" 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. "

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" Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds. "

" These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained. "

" In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln. "

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" I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me. "

" The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness. "

" Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. "

" Freedom is a system based on courage. "

" It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. "

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

" Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. "

" Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward. "

" Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. "

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" What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? "

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" Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. "

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" 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. "

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" I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through. "

" Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no. "

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" I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody. "