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" Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. "

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

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" Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. "

" I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. "

" Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. "

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" Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. "

" They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. "

Donald O'Connor

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" Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. "

" I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the world. And I know that my fellow American soldiers - and those of the other coalition countries under my command - valued very highly the professional expertise, capability, courage, and determination of our British partners on the battlefield. "

" 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

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Order

" I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail. "

" At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. "

" Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. "

" It requires more courage to suffer than to die. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

Than

Suffer

" Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. "

John M. McHugh

Courage

Sacrifice

" Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. "

" The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. "

" Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk. "

" Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources. "

" We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. "

Stokely Carmichael

Vulnerable

Courage

" I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. "

" In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued. "

" Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Time

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" You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. "

" I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. "

" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "

" We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming. "

Douglas Fairbanks

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Money

" Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. "

" 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. "

" Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. "