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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
-Victor Hugo
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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.
-Victor Hugo
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Courage is acting in spite of fear.
-Howard W. Hunter
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
-Andrew Jackson
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One man with courage makes a majority.
-Andrew Jackson
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...
-William James
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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.
-Andrew Jensen
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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
-Billy Joel
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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.
-John Johnson
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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
-Samuel Johnson
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
-Samuel Johnson
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
-Samuel Johnson
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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.
-Alphonse Karr
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For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.
-Sister Elizabeth Kenny
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
-Basil King
Conquest Of Fear (1921)
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
-George Konrad
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
-Sheldon Kopp
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Books about Bravery
