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  Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016

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• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Positive, Sports

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Army, Bravery, Heroism

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

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  Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Artist as Housewife" (1972)

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• Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Fire, Genius, Talent

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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• Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Imagination, Cowardice, Ability

  "A Farewell to Arms".

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  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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  Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

  Nora Ephron

  Life, Inspiring, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

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• It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Life, Being Strong, Wisdom

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• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can't test courage cautiously.

  Annie Dillard

  Insperational, Bravery, Tests

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books

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• Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Patience, Giving Up

  Saint John (Climacus) (1959). “The Ladder of Divine Ascent”

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• The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

  Richard DeVos

  Motivational, Positive, Dance

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• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

  Rollo May

  Soulmate, Self Esteem, Opposites

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• To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Pain, Healing

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 29, 2011

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• Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

  Thomas Szasz

  Thinking, Clear, Clear Thinking

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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  Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Business

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  Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Men, Perfect, Danger

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