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• I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Needs, Might

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• A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

  Bertrand Russell

  Motivational, Atheist, Kindness

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Asking Questions, Pertinent Questions

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• What a new face courage puts on everything!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

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• It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Successful

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Powerful, Fear, Failure

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• Desperate courage makes One a majority.

  Andrew Jackson

  Majority, Majority And Minority, Desperate

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• You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Strength, Wall, Hate

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done.

  Dan B. Allender

  Jobs, Done, Get The Job Done

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.77, WaterBrook

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• I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

  William John Locke

  Believe, Army, People

  William John Locke (1925). “Simon the Jester”, p.470, Library of Alexandria

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• When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

  Jan Smuts

  Doubt, Courageous, When In Doubt

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• Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Zest, Dykes

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

  Olga Korbut

  Giving Up, Thinking, Might

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• It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Bravery, Tasks, Matter

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

  Rollo May

  Moving, Long, Virtue

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Honesty, Attitude, Humility

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• What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, New Life, Ruins

  "William Tell". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act IV, Scene II), 1804.

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• Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

  Mason Cooley

  Bravery, Victory, Defeat

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• Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

  Aeschylus

  Fear, Want, Tongue

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• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  Major Taylor

  Patience, Perseverance, Monsters

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

  Mildred H. McAfee

  Motivational, Trust, Ambition

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• Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

  Nora Roberts

  Heart, Together, Different

  Nora Roberts (2016). “Nora Roberts The Stanislaskis Series Books 4-6: Convincing Alex\Waiting for Nick\Considering Kate”, p.477, Harlequin

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• I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

  George Chapman

  Song, Yield, Voice

  Eastward Ho act 5, sc. 1 (1605).

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• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  Arthur Ashe

  Memorial Day, Hero, Army

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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