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" What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? "

Vincent Van Gogh

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Napoleon Bonaparte

" In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued. "

" The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. "

Van Wyck Brooks

" The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. "

" We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. "

" We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. "

Barbara De Angelis

" Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. "

Christian Nestell Bovee

" I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. "

" Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. "

Mignon McLaughlin

" The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. "

Thomas S. Monson

" I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. "

" To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. "

Georgia O'Keeffe

" Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' "

" Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. "

Laura Schlessinger

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

Leonardo da Vinci

" Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. "

" In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking. "

John T. Chambers

" Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. "

" At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section. "

Leslie Odom, Jr.

" 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. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" 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. "

" America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. "

" When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. "

" 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. "

" Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. "

Lillian Hellman

" The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action. "