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• Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Courage, Fighting, Enough

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• A mind always hopeful, confident, courageous, and determined on its set purpose, and keeping itself to that purpose, attracts to itself out of the elements things and powers favourable to that purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Hopeful, Mind, Purpose

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage.

  Jeff Myers

  People, Overcoming, Use

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• Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Display

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• He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.

  Confucius

  Men, Despair, Courageous Man

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• For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Courage, Men

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• The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

  David Nicholls

  Art, Life Changing, Hard Work

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• There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Faith, Determination, Compassion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.520, Psychology Press

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• The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Courageous Man, He Man

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• Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Ideas

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Issues, Feelings, Important

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.140, Sophia Institute Press

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• Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred, oppression and disunity, but not by using methods of violence. Building peace requires creative and courageous action

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Mean, Evil

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• One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself!

  Shigesato Itoi

  Believe, Goal, Tough

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• I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Intelligent, Powerful Women

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• The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

  Anthony Storr

  Heaven, Glimpse, Spirit

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Graduation, Be Courageous, Be Your Best

  "Giffords Urges Graduates at Bard to ‘Be Courageous’" by Vivian Yee, autoglassweek.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

  Maya Angelou

  Graduation, Giving, Tomorrow

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• If you can change your mind, you can change the world. Before you can be creative, you must be courageous. Creativity is the destination, but courage is the journey.

  Joey Reiman

  Creativity, Journey, Creative

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• Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Mind, Important, Finals

  Zbigniew Herbert (1977). “Selected poems”

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• I never think that anything I do is courageous.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Thinking

  "Howard Hodgkin: the later, greater Hodgkin". Interview with Karen Wright, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 5, 2008.

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• A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

  Aristotle

  Noble, Sake, Faces

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• In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Shows, Standing

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

  L. P. Jacks

  Vision, Reason, Raised

  "Religious Perplexities". "Hibbert Lecture", 1922.

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• It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Dog, Faithful, Allies

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• The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Friendship, Principles, Not Afraid

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.11, Open Road Media

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