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" Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc. "

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" It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. "

Cesar Chavez

Courage

Life

I Am

" The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory. "

" 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

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Enough

Stand

" Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. "

" We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. "

" Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess. "

" Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. "

" War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. "

" We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. "

" No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. "

Channing Pollock

Eating

Man

" The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. "

" With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction. "

" My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. "

John Bunyan

Succeed

Courage

" Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. "

" Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. "

" Life is to be entered upon with courage. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

Entered

Life

Courage

" So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets. "

" If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. "

" I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. "

" In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence - of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state - begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed. "

" The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. "

" To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking. "

" It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. "

" At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey. "

" Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. "

" You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' "

" Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. "

" 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. "

" In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. "

" To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. "