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" Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. "

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" Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. "

Pope John Paul II

" It takes courage to be an entrepreneur. "

" Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. "

" The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' "

" The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. "

" If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses. "

Isabella Rossellini

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Matthew Adams

" Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live. "

" If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window. "

" My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. "

" The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. "

John Stuart Mill

" Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. "

Charles Kennedy

" The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage. "

" 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. "

" Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of. "

Bethany Hamilton

" There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them. "

" Red carpet is a little bit scary. It's not about expression. It's about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It's a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

" If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage. "

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

" 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

" I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves. "

" I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. "

" You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage. "

" So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. "

" 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. "

Stephen Leacock

" When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though. "

" Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. "

" Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need. "