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" I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life. "

John Prendergast

Courage

Child

Women

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" Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. "

" I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation. "

Hayley Kiyoko

Courage

Grateful

" If I can, in any way, give people the courage to say, 'Actually, no, the nonsense stops right here,' then I want to be a part of doing that. Especially if that means that our folks will be more free. "

" It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it. "

" I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. "

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

" If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. "

" Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. "

" Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.' "

" Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all. "

" I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. "

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

" And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working. "

" Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. "

" The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action. "

" Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. "

" 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

People

Courage

Face

" As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores. "

" I would kiss you, had I the courage. "

" Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. "

" I'm probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I'm part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way. "

John Prendergast

Way

Doing

Doing The Right Thing

" 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. "

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Courage

Change

Reality

" You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. "

" The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there to personally work towards your vision. You will have the confidence to take risks because you have time by your side. You can bring innovation into everything you do and constantly reinvent yourself. "

" The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. "

" Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies. "

" In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued. "

" When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming. "

" If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think. "

" Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Strong

Courage

Desire