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" It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. "

Giacomo Casanova

Self-Confidence

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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. "

" 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

" Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. "

" Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears. "

Susana Martinez

" Daredevil was known as 'The Man Without Fear,' and I just thought, 'Well, I don't think that's very interesting.' I don't think it's very interesting to watch someone who's incapable of feeling fear. It also removes from the palate my favorite character attribute, which is courage. If you're not afraid, you can't exercise courage. "

" The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. "

Van Wyck Brooks

" Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing. "

" He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. "

Miguel de Cervantes

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

" Have the courage to act instead of react. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of faith. And a lot of love and support. "

" The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed. "

" I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging around that Burt used to do, but the courage. You know where you stand with men like that. "

" Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular. "

" Courage without conscience is a wild beast. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society. "

" 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. "

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

" I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are. "

" One man with courage is a majority. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. "

" What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage. "

" We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. "

" Courage is the birthplace of confidence. "

" Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no. "

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton