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" My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed. "

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" Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. "

George A. Sheehan

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Courage

Determination

" People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. "

" A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. "

" Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience. "

" The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them. "

" Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. "

" 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. "

" If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. "

" Courage is a kind of salvation. "

" It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Failed

Tried

Much

" You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and 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

Responsibility

Success

" Audacity, hope, courage - the Libyans have these in abundance. But all those boring little things - like organization, building a committee - is hard; making decisions and moving ahead is hard. "

" Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. "

" Boldness be my friend. "

" War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial. "

" I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection. "

Tiger Shroff

Girl

Feel

" I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. "

" When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work. "

" I find putting oneself out there difficult. I think writing and sharing writing require different skill sets. I want to be read, but it takes courage to ask someone to read your work. "

" Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children. "

" I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation. "

Hayley Kiyoko

Courage

Grateful

" I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. "

" Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. "

" 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

Man

Money

" Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. "

Thornton Wilder

Faith

Nothing

" A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me. "

Sun Myung Moon

Moon

Sun

" I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing. "

" In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking. "

" As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out! "