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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
-Lewis Carroll
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
-Pema Chodron
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (p. 75)
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
-James Freeman Clarke
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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
-Robert Cody
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
-Jeremy Collier
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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
-Joseph Conrad
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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
-e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
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Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
-Clarence Darrow
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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
-Barbara De Angelis
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Books about Bravery
