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" Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. "

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" I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me. "

Peter Carey

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" The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself. "

" There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. "

" I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. "

" Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. "

Grace Paley

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" You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' "

" He who is brave is free. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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" There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. "

" I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. "

" It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. "

" In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? "

" The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. "

" Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. "

" Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process. "

" The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. "

" The window was open for us to play in the consumer as data, voice, video came together. This is where you have to have the courage to take good business risks because if you don't, you never win. "

" With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that. "

" Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. "

" If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. "

" What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity. "

" I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution. "

Alexander the Great

Great

Success

" A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. "

" Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. "

" A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy. "

" I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion. "

" You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. "

" What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? "

" It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. "

e. e. cummings

You

Teen

" Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. "

" Courage is action, not talk. "