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" I think it is not just the U.N. speaking, but the concept of a third party, a third party to a conflict speaking out. You know, sometimes saying, 'Stop, this is enough. This cannot be allowed to happen,' gives the victims and the people who are caught in that situation courage, encouragement, support. "

Kofi Annan

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" Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. "

" Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. "

" I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage. "

" Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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" I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. "

" When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work. "

" If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy. "

" Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. "

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

" It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting. "

" 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. "

" More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. "

James Thomson

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" I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision. "

" Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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" Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. "

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

" The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can. "

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

" It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. "

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

Megyn Kelly

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" With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice. "

" Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. "

" The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. "

" 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. "

" Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. "

" Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. "

" In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? "

" Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully. "

" Every man of courage is a man of his word. "