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" In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. "

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" But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. "

Robert Peel

Strength

Courage

Natural

" If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism - then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. "

" When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation. "

" One of the biggest ways we don't support ourselves is by not asking for support. Asking can take courage, but the reward is immense. "

" One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender. "

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Gender

Questions

You

" Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. "

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

" To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is. "

" 'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams. "

" I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage. "

Edith Evans

Courage

Got

" Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. "

Grace Paley

Fear

Courage

" In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. "

" During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. "

" I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. "

" You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. "

William J. H. Boetcker

Man

Independence

Courage

" But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. "

" Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. "

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Top

Faith

" My duty is clear and at all costs will be done. "

" Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. "

" One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. "

Ian Mcewan

Pessimism

Courage

" In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. "

" Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of. "

" It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage

Enough

Stand

" The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State. "

" I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage. "

John Ortberg

Courage

Gift

" I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the world. And I know that my fellow American soldiers - and those of the other coalition countries under my command - valued very highly the professional expertise, capability, courage, and determination of our British partners on the battlefield. "

" You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage. "

" A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. "

" It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. "

" People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. "