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" You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' "

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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. "

Todd Young

Political

You

Courage

" It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. "

" I think it is not just the U.N. speaking, but the concept of a third party, a third party to a conflict speaking out. You know, sometimes saying, 'Stop, this is enough. This cannot be allowed to happen,' gives the victims and the people who are caught in that situation courage, encouragement, support. "

" You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. "

" Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances. "

" I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. "

" The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. "

" Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration. "

" In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. "

" In the morning, I'm like the Antonioni movies. I'm little sad. I haven't the courage to start the day. In the evenings, I'm happier, more alive - like the character I play in 'An Almost Perfect Affair.' "

" Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. "

" At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself. "

Maya Angelou

Waking Up

Myself

" Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. "

" The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. "

" If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. "

" In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. "

" How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. "

" Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. "

" I actually learned that you should never give up, and if you love something, take courage and absolutely go after it. "

" When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. "

Maya Angelou

Dreams

Musicians

" Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses. "

Mary Gaitskill

Courage

Riding

" As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. "

" Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. "

" At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family. "

" It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. "

e. e. cummings

You

Teen

" Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Time

Courage

Meet

" If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it. "

" Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. "

" I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India. "

" Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. "