Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear
- not absence of fear
- Mark Twain
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Life shrinks or expands in
proportion to one's courage
- Anais Nin
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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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Courage is the ladder on which
all the other virtues mount
- Unknown
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Discouragement is simply the despair
of wounded self-love
- Francois de Fenelon
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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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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to
grow strong by conflict
- William Ellery Channing
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads
- Erica Jong
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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are
- Unknown
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Tisn't life that matters!
'Tis the courage you bring to it
- Sir Hugh Walpole
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It often takes more courage to change
one's opinion than to stick to it
- Geoffrey F. Abert
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Often the test of courage is
not to die but to live
- Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort
- Sydney Smith
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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow."
- Anne Hunninghake
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Courage is the capacity to
confront what can be imagined
- Leo Rosten
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You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
- Unknown
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality
which guarantees the others
- Aristotle
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The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior
- Battista
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear
what ought no to be feared
- David Ben-Gurion
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Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to
- Unknown
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be,
when it suits him, a coward
- Edgar Allan Poe
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined
- Henry David Thoreau
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If you don't believe it can happen
then your courage is dead
- Hannah Shirey
( Thanks Erica Martin-Caqney)
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort
- Sydney Smith
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The courageous don't live forever,
but the timid don't live at all
- Unknown
(Thanks Mitch and Jo Leger)
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