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" Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes. "

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" Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. "

John Keegan

Courage

Veterans Day

Done

" I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. "

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

" Courage is grace under pressure. "

" To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is. "

" TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more. "

" To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

Everything

Life

Whatever

" 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. "

" Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. "

Ruth Gordon

Muscle

Courage

" But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. "

" On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team. "

" There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. "

" Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. "

" It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out. "

" 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. "

" Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. "

" In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence. "

Ben Horowitz

Intelligence

Experience

" I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you. "

C. V. Raman

Men

Women

" He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. "

Miguel de Cervantes

Much

Friend

" Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. "

" In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process. "

" Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. "

" There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Bear

Nothing

World

" Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary. "

Amber Valletta

Always

Courage

" All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. "

" In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. "

" For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. "

" The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. "

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Soldier

Knowledge

Courage

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

" How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. "