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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• I don't want to die without a few scars.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want, Scar, Fight Club Book

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Courage

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Women, Brave

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Bridges, Brave, Wells

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”

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• Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

  Horace

  Night, Men, Agamemnon

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 82-83, Odes, Book IV, IX. 25, 1922.

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• In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
  [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

  Martial

  Adversity, Easy, Despise

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• Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Husband

  "The Canterbury tales: translated into modern English prose".

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• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Courage, Hero, Virtue

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• A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

  Alexander Pope

  Struggle, Fall, Fate

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.70

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• The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

  Euripides

  Wise, Courage, Men

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

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• People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

  George Eliot

  People, Might, Neighbor

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

  Alan Alda

  Life, Creativity, Creative

  Alan Alda (2009). “Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself”, p.21, Random House

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• When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

  Aristotle

  Running, Adventure, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1763, Princeton University Press

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• Come on, somebody be brave.

  Dave Gould

  Brave, Be Brave

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• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Courage, Travel, Inspire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

  Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Men, Blood, Land

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, pp. 82-83, Lehre an den Menschen, 5, 1922.

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• Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.

  John Facenda

  Strength, Being Strong, Sports

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• The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?

  Merritt A. Edson

  Courage, Military, Army

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• Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouraging, Courage, African American

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2016

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• More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Courage

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• The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Courage, Men, Missionary

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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