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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Letty's first false step was here: she said to herself _I can not_, and did not. She lacked courage-...

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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors...

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Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ...

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It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

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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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with coura...

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To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to gui...

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Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such...

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I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief ...

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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs...

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Graham GreeneThe Heart of the Matter

Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage...

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It is brave to be involved.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage an...

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion o...

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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

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Hannah ArendtBetween Past and Future

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than...

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...

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We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us...

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Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing ba...

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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 g...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mys...

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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stan...

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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determ...

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There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so ...

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Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of...

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... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encou...

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... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. The...

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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate t...

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No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next day...

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.

It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...

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In times of stress be bold and valiant.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out...

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never ...

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We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never t...

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Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make ...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a t...

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I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ...

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Young man, be of good courage. Care not for what the world says or thinks: you will not be with the ...

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

I know that you are preparing to fight." There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutc...

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You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have ni...

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Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Come on!' he muttered, staring about. 'Where are you? Dad, come on--" But no one came. Harry raised ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our fri...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherw...

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Courage is found in unlikely places.

Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battl...

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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as ...

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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi...

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Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we ...

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Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ...

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I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shield...

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Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bri...

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A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fel...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up m...

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The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

You have to be eligible for luck to strike and I think that's a matter of education and preparation...

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I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it...

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Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut cape...

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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...

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

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Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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