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" I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. "
J. D. Salinger
Courage
Absolute
Sick
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" If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. "
Jeff Flake
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" Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love. "
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" The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect. "
Bill Frist
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" All morons hate it when you call them a moron. "
J. D. Salinger
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You
" War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying. "
Russell Crowe
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" I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me. "
Wladimir Klitschko
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" Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. "
Eddie Rickenbacker
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You
Doing
" Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. "
Christian Nestell Bovee
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" If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window. "
Kirk Cameron
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" A man of courage is also full of faith. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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" Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. "
Brene Brown
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Courage
" It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. "
James Keller
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Confidence
True
" Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. "
Confucius
Undone
Courage
Lack
" Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? "
Virgil
Strategy
Defeated
Who
" In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. "
George Lois
Courage
People
Wind
" That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. "
Kerry Washington
Audience
Acting
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" Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. "
Maya Angelou
Yourself
Small Things
Courage
" You can't test courage cautiously. "
Annie Dillard
Test
You
Courage
" It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away. "
Jon Gruden
Play
Consequences
Courage
" You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' "
Maya Angelou
Stand Up
Stand
Forgiveness
" Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. "
Grace Paley
Fear
Us
Courage
" Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. "
Jean Anouilh
Death
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Day
" No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. "
Hillary Clinton
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Vote
War
" True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. "
Jeremy Collier
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Courage
" When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live. "
Junot Diaz
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" The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times. "
Ann Turner
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" Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman. "
Jennifer Chiaverini
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" I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail. "
Geri Halliwell
Feel
Work
Think
" In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. "
Isabel Allende
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" Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. "
George Bernard Shaw
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