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" Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. "

Leonardo da Vinci

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" Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life. "

" He who is brave is free. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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" Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. "

" If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. "

" America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech. "

" 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. "

" There should be no real difficulty in condemning Nazis, white supremacists, and the Ku Klux Klan. They are, for God's sake, Nazis and white supremacists. This should not require moral courage. This is obvious. This is the moral equivalent of the text you type to prove you're not a robot. "

Alexandra Petri

" My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism. "

" How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Fate loves the fearless. "

James Russell Lowell

" Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for. "

Louis Armstrong

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

Vincent Van Gogh

" The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans. "

" One man with courage is a majority. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. "

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

" I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life. "

" Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. "

" Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. "

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" He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. "

" Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. "

" 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. "

" It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense. "

" In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight. "

" I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. "

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