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" The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. "
Edward Gibbon
Nature
Courage
Human Nature
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" Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. "
Ruth Gordon
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" We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one. "
Colin Firth
Know
Think
Place
" Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. "
George Bernard Shaw
Common Sense
Courage
Good
" Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. "
Paul Tillich
Free
Risk
Being
" When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. "
Nikos Kazantzakis
Joy
Soul
God
" Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. "
Christopher Reeve
End
Ocean
Go
" The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness. "
Mike Pence
Day
Legacy
Political
" It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. "
Rollo May
Freedom
Play
Move On
" I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. "
Wallis Simpson
New Things
Sometimes
Courage
" The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. "
Nick Clooney
Courage
Values
Quality
" I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English. "
Sharad Pawar
College
Courage
Never
" To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. "
Stephen Baker
Last
Perseverance
Courage
" Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide. "
Andrew Johnson
Courage
Honest
Constitution
" Change takes courage. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Courage
Change
Takes
" 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. "
Sharon Stone
Today
Work
Learning
" Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. "
Martha Stewart
Courage
Creative
Business
" Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. "
Robert Crumb
Commitment
People
Yourself
" Have the courage to act instead of react. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
React
Courage
Act
" Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. "
Winston Churchill
Human
First
Courage
" This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. "
Virginia Woolf
People
Courage
Soul
" Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. "
Bob Richards
Plus
Miracles
Work
" Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. "
Victor Hugo
Life
Patience
Peace
" Courage is grace under pressure. "
Ernest Hemingway
Courage
Grace
Pressure
" The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them. "
Jason Kander
American
Women
Men
" Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. "
Morihei Ueshiba
Power
Trust
Courage
" Necessity does the work of courage. "
Nicholas M. Butler
Does
Work
Courage
" Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. "
Oscar Wilde
You
Weakness
Think
" Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. "
Ovid
Who
Courage
Happy
" Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death. "
Lucy Dacus
Mind
Respect
She
" Political courage is not political suicide. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Political
Courage
Suicide