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" People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage. "

Gabrielle Giffords

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" I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken. "

Julianna Baggott

" The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line. "

" I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. "

" Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. "

" Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage. "

" Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress. "

Gabrielle Giffords

" The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. "

" Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group. "

Linda McCartney

" Courage is grace under pressure. "

Ernest Hemingway

" 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. "

" If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" I think there's a great strength in having the courage and also having the support to do what you want to do when you're an artist in any way, shape or form. "

" 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. "

Portia de Rossi

" Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration. "

" Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances. "

George Matthew Adams

" But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. "

" Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. "

" All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop. "

" Ain't nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain't nobody ever power moves like mine, ain't nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain't nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me. "

" Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. "

Herbert Kaufman

" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. "

" Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school. "

Thomas J. Stanley

" The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. "

" It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years. "

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

" Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others. "

" You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success. "

" 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. "