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" Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. "
Rebecca Harding Davis
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" It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. "
James A. Michener
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" It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. "
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" The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action. "
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" 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. "
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" We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. "
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" It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. "
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" 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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" The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know. "
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" I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. "
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" The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
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" 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. "
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" Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage. "
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" I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay. "
Andy Garcia
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" Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. "
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" I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India. "
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" The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. "
Thomas Aquinas
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" An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. "
Joseph Pulitzer
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" 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. "
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" At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. "
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" Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. "
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" Optimism is the foundation of courage. "
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" There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. "
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