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" 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. "

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" Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is. "

" It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development. "

" 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.' "

" Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand. "

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

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

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" It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. "

" The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality. "

" Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. "

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

" Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am. "

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" Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources. "

" Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company. "

" When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live. "

" I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage. "

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" The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times. "

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" Ain't nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain't nobody ever power moves like mine, ain't nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain't nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me. "

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" Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. "

" Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. "

" 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. "

" And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family. "

" In the many roles I have played in my acting career as military figures, I have simply drawn upon the acts of courage, large and small, I have seen in the men and women with whom I served, and the countless others I met or have come to know through the years. "

" Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right. "

" Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. "

" Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own. "

" We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness. "

" It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. "

" We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out. "

" I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through. "

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