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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West ...

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If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who...

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The truth is that you are afraid.''Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I...

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing n...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beauti...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

One man with courage makes a majority.

A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a...

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The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when...

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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals sh...

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When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness i...

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Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for...

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Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little bette...

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After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our familie...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the ...

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If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey ...

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C. S. LewisOut of the Silent Planet

Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes...

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Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are no...

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In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usu...

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Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

Why should we isolate people who are brave enough to try to become like us--who want to help people?...

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[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, witho...

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Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen if ...

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Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen if ...

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there’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadse...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our...

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Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle...

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They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead.

Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death...

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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

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If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to s...

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Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, ...

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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one d...

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There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it...

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Be lucky, Xander, and be brave. You will find that bravery and luck are often bedfellows.

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David GemmellLord of the Silver Bow

So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and...

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Derrick JensenDeep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - gener...

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Diana GabaldonWritten in My Own Heart's Blood

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?""Not ...

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You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against some...

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Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of ...

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The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

She was brave from excess of grief

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of li...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and...

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Bravery means doing something scary.

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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

We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our stature...

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Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast—Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the m...

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Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the...

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Emma GoldmanThe Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white...

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

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

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He was mad and plenty brave.

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Ernest HemingwayTo Have and Have Not

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water d...

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge mi...

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He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

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Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. There's plenty I'm afraid of. Just not va...

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting we...

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I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird o...

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Necessity does the work of courage.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest ne...

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Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Br...

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Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave,

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be...

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Fear cuts deeper than swords.

She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a wolverine and all, but sometimes she felt like she ...

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a si...

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If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over somet...

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Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

She was the bravest person I ever knew.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving dea...

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