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" We can score political points. We can try to advance some important initiatives. But at some point, it takes sober-minded, responsible conservative leaders to identify when you've pushed as far as you can and to have the courage to go back and face the electorate and explain to them why you voted the way you did. "

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" Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. "

John Stuart Mill

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Strength

Character

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

" Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good. "

" I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. "

" It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. "

" As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.' "

" A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. "

" My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones. "

" 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. "

" You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. "

William J. H. Boetcker

Man

Independence

Courage

" Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day. "

" Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to. "

" Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. "

" The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something. "

Carson Daly

Stand

Acting

" Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. "

" The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. "

" I had to find the courage to turn my life around. "

" Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are. "

" From caring comes courage. "

Lao Tzu

Caring

Courage

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Losing

Heart

Earth

" 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. "

" What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? "

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

" No one has all the answers, so whatever a woman who has the BRCA mutation chooses to do requires courage and an element of faith. And a lot of love and support. "

" Political courage is not political suicide. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Political

Courage

Suicide

" I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey. "

" True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. "

John Petit-Senn

Courage

Higher

" Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. "

" Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth. "

" Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. "