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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.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

  Charles Dickens

  Communication, Thought Provoking, Bravery

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  What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

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• A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Clever

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Thinking, Men

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 2), 44 BC.

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• The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

  Aristotle

  Life, Gratitude, Courage

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.

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• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Courage, Army, Bravery

  In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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• You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Confidence

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• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

  Clive Barker

  Bravery, Trying, Literature

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 17, 2013

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• [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Meaningful, Courage, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.126

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• Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

  Chris Bradford

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

  Thucydides

  Strength, Peace, Military

  Thucydides (1979). “The Speeches of Pericles”, Burns & Oates

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• It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

  Harper Lee

  Dad, War, Father

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Brave men are brave from the very first.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Bravery, Firsts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Cid, II. 3, 1922.

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• The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

  Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Men, Blood, Land

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, pp. 82-83, Lehre an den Menschen, 5, 1922.

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• Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Army, Bravery

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Stars, Young Love, Bravery

  Song: Hello, Young Lovers

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• Love costs all we are
  and will ever be.
  Yet it is only love
  which sets us free.
  A Brave and Startling Truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Brave

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