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" To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. "

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Napoleon Bonaparte

" People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs. "

" There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Courage without conscience is a wild beast. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected. "

Caroline Kennedy

" The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. "

Ralph W. Sockman

" Boldness be my friend. "

William Shakespeare

" Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward. "

" Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? "

" You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better. "

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

" For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend. "

Jeff Greenfield

" It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away. "

" Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell. "

" Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. "

Neal A. Maxwell

" I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible. "

Shirley Chisholm

" I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. "

" 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

" Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds. "

" During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened. "

" In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale. "

Caleb Deschanel

" I have huge respect for women who go out of their homes and have the courage to make their own destiny. And let me tell you, Indian women are doing a great job. There are those who work because they have no option but to earn, and then there are those who do it because they have the right talent. I respect both. "

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

" Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. "

William Butler Yeats

" I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are. "

" Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. "

" The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. "

" Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. "

Louis D. Brandeis

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