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" Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right. "

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" When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. "

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" Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. "

" When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God. "

Nathaniel Philbrick

" Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.' "

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" Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children. "

" Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. "

Saint Francis de Sales

" Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone. "

" It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. "

" There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions. "

" Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. "

" The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. "

Daniel J. Boorstin

" The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Van Wyck Brooks

" 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. "

" People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.' "

" Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. "

" It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. "

" We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer takes extraordinary courage to call for a better world - so that every person with the ability to imagine peace, equality, progress, and justice can express their dreams and hopes without fear. "

" Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. "

" None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. "

" Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

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