"To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that."
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"Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it."
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"Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence."
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"This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
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"Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls."
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
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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."
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"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."
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"Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction."
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"Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage."
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"One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointment you have "guts" in the soldiering sense."
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"Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul."
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"Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp the latter for the council but to constitute a great man both are necessary."
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"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
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"This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad but those who taste in living awareness every drop of the good."
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"Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger misfortune fear injustice while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow."
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"Valour is nobleness of the mind."
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"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
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"The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art."
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