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

William J. H. Boetcker

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

" Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. "

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" Freedom is a system based on courage. "

" My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. "

" Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. "

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

" Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. "

W. Clement Stone

" We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line. "

" The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. "

Carl Friedrich Gauss

" So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. "

Zora Neale Hurston

" In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal. "

" I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do. "

" I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things. "

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so. "

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" Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully. "

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" I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self. "

" Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. "

" Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. "

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

Thomas S. Monson

" September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. "

Geraldine Brooks

" When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work. "

" The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know. "

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" Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? "

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