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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.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one...

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Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about bu...

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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the me...

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by...

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Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or gi...

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Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do,"...

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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....

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There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it do...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

Fear is really quite tedious. She wanted to be rid of it as soon as possible.

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.

[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.

...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was ove...

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Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...

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It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...

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The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to und...

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Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is...

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None but the brave deserve the fair.

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to blee...

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There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to...

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is...

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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first on...

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If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.

Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determinat...

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God willing, we shall this day meet that old enemyWho has give us so many a good beating.Thank God w...

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John Gould FletcherIrradiations; Sand and Spray

War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a repu...

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Okay, so anagrams. That’s one. Got any other charming talents?” she asked, and now he felt confident...

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Some people have more guts than brains.

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John GrishamThe Rainmaker

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECIS...

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John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart o...

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles...

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The real gift of love is self disclosure.

God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacce...

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He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to u...

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Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount o...

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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Alex here. (...) Ron, I really enjoy all the help you have given me and the times we spent together....

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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality...

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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into realit...

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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to exist...

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An excuse is a lie guarded.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of d...

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It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero With a Thousand Faces

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virt...

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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depen...

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Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage,...

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectr...

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Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fea...

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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and coura...

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I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...I've got a theor-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody su...

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Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch...

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Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its prese...

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Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mas...

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As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get o...

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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...

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A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserve...

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you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, t...

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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is...

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Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the mis...

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All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces da...

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True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe ther...

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Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There ...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do...

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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weaknes...

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