Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. Howard Cosell

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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis

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We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. William Tecumseh Sherman

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. Abraham Lincoln

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Ain't it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve. But we just can't find one politician in a million with backbone. Will Rogers

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. Helen Keller

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. Arthur Koestler

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There are times when silence is golden, other times it is just plain yellow. Ed Cole

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The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams

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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine

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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante Alighieri

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You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. Abraham Lincoln

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. Sir Winston Churchill

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Sir Winston Churchill

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Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed to produce. François Fénelon

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The strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is courage. Michel de Montaigne

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Clare Luce

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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. Harper Lee

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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacker

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Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. Brian Tracy

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Practice audacity in all things. Acting with courage builds your courage and confidence higher and higher. Brian Tracy

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

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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause. Theodore Roosevelt

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. John Wayne

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Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. Brian Tracy

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo

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You can't climb the ladder of success with cold feet. Zig Ziglar

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Clive Staples Lewis

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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. Billy Graham

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Too much caution is bad for you. It is usually wiser to stand up to a scary-seeming experience and walk right into it, risking the bruises or hard knocks. You are likely to find it is not as tough as you had thought. Or you may find it plenty tough, but also discover you have what it takes to handle it. Norman Vincent Peale

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Courage is about the management of fear, not the absence of fear. Rudy Giuliani

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Don't let the sensation of fear convince you that you're too weak to have courage. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. John McCain

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If bravery is a quality which knows not fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on. George Patton

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Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of it. William Danforth

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The primary antidotes to doubt and fear are courage and confidence. Brian Tracy

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The more you learn what you need to know to achieve your goals, the less fear you will feel on the one hand and the more courage and confidence you will feel on the other. Brian Tracy

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground. Just as your muscles automatically atrophy from lack of use, so your courage will automatically decay in the absence of conscious conditioning. Steve Pavlina

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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie

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To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway. John Maxwell

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. Anonymous

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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter Drucker

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It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. Adlai Stevenson

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. J. Petit-Sinn

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Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice. Stephen Covey

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The way you develop the courage you need is to act as if you already had the courage and behave accordingly. Brian Tracy

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Dorothy Bernard

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• prayer

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently. Cus D'Amato

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. Omar Bradley

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All men are timid on entering any fight; whether it is the first fight or the last fight all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood. George Patton

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

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I tell my kids, what is the dif­fer­ence between a hero and a cow­ard? What is the dif­fer­ence between being yel­low and being brave? No dif­fer­ence. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and get­ting hurt. The man who is yel­low refus­es to face up to what he’s got to face. The hero is more dis­ci­plined and he fights those feel­ings off and he does what he has to do. But they both feel the same, the hero and the cow­ard. Peo­ple who watch you judge you on what you do, not how you feel. Cus D'Amato

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Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular?

But conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. Sir Winston Churchill

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Since it is so likely that [children] will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Clive Staples Lewis

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Courage implies a risk. It implies a potential for failure or the presence of danger. Courage is measured against danger. The greater the danger, the greater the courage. Running into a burning building beats telling off your boss. Telling off your boss is more courageous than writing a really mean anonymous note. Acts without meaningful consequences require little courage. Jack Donovan

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

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Education and psychological bravery are somewhat interchangeable. If you don't have much of one, you can compensate with a lot of the other. When you see a successful person who lacks a college education, you're usually looking at someone with an unusual lack of fear. Scott Adams

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Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike. Benjamin Franklin

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