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• The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Discovery, Arrogance, Magic

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.

  William Morley Punshon

  Flower, Believe, Men

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson

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• Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Government, Essentials, Would Be

  Oliver Hazard Perry, Citizen of Massachusetts (1834). “A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott”, p.24

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• I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

  Gene Wolfe

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• Question the bravery.
  Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

  Jack Gilbert

  Passion

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.28, Knopf

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• Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

  Will Rogers

  Horse, Accomplishment, Parks

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• I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.

  Robertson Davies

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh.

  Sun Tzu

  Warrior, Winning, Victory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men.

  Keorapetse Kgositsile

  Real, Moving, Men

  Keorapetse Kgositsile (2002). “If I could sing: selected poems”

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• As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

  Norman Mailer

  Fear, People, Excess

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• My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

  Charles Dickens

  Daughter, Words Of Wisdom, Moral

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.275

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• What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, Jupiter, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.77, Graphic Arts Books

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• Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Courage, Men, Thinking

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• The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

  Wesley Morris

  Son, Law, Two

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• It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Kind, Certain, Status Quo

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.78, Random House

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• It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

  Jean-Francois Regnard

  Courage, Heart, Peril

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• Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.

  Brock Yates

  Sports, Race, Skills

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• Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds. —Matthias

  Brian Jacques

  Warrior, Evil, Lazy

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• The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

  Henry James

  Girl, Determination, Thinking

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• It takes bravery to end a relationship.

  Leona Lewis

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  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blood, Wings, Gone

  "September, 1913" l. 7 (1914)

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• Oh! where does faithful Gélert roam, The flow'r of all his race? So true, so brave; a lamb at home, A lion in the chase.

  William Spencer

  Faith, Home, Race

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• I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

  Veronica Roth

  Needs, Small Moments, Dauntless

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• Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

  Sting

  Courage, Pain, Sorrow

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.202, Dial Press

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• I don’t feel brave, especially not right now. (Delphine) That’s what bravery is, especially for a woman not used to having emotions. When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don’t let it stop you, that is true courage. There’s never been bravery without fear. Just as there’s no love without hate. (M'Adoc)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Emotion, Used

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.182, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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