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" It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. "

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" The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. "

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

" Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. "

" Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. "

" 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. "

" He is now rising from affluence to poverty. "

" I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds. "

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

" Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. "

" 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. "

" Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. "

" I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. "

Antonio Munoz Molina

" My dad's life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness. "

Daniel Lubetzky

" Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages. "

Richard Paul Evans

" Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. "

Lillian Hellman

" In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. "

" Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. "

Christian Nestell Bovee

" Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. "

" True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. "

John Petit-Senn

" It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. "

" A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. "

" What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good. "

" When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know. "

" The lack of money is the root of all evil. "

" It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. "

" The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. "

John F. Kennedy

" You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy. "

Portia de Rossi

" During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened. "