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• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

  Alan Cohen

  Order, Embrace, Release

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• Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

  Torquato Tasso

  Men, Years, Locks

  Torquato Tasso, Leigh Hunt (1851). “Godfrey of Bulloigne, Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem: Done Into English Heroical Verse, from the Italian of Tasso”, p.13

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• Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Inspiring, Graduation

  "Dictionary of Thoughts". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 22, 1908.

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• He who moves not forward, goes backward.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Growth, Progress

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

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• Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  "Maya Angelou’s Art Collection Will Give You The Fire To Finish The Day Right" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2015.

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• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Work, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.242, Рипол Классик

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• Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
  'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Weakness, Avoided, Lament

  1592 Margaret. HenryVI PartThree, act 5, sc.4, l.37-8.

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• Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Life, Men, Roots

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

  Ed Weeks

  Fear, Maturity, Bravery

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• Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

  Plutarch

  Fear, Justice, Causes

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• Lately I've been runnin' on faith. What else can a poor boy do?

  Jerry Lynn Williams

  Boys, Poor, Poor Boy

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• All glory comes from daring to begin.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Motivation, Business, New Beginnings

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Three, Clock

  'Walden' (1854) 'Sounds'.

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• A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, May, Spirit

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5103, Delphi Classics

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• The intent and not the deed
  Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
  Does greatly.

  John Brown

  Doe, Deeds, Dare

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Brown, John Banks (1795). “British Theatre: Barbarossa”, p.72

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• We fail!
  But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
  And we'll not fail.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Encouraging, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 54

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• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Freedom, Character

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J.H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

  Tom Krause

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

  E. M. Forster

  Literature, Be Courageous, Cease

  "Pharos and Pharillon" by E.M. Forster, 1923.

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• The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Running, Children, Stupid

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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  The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

  George Santayana

  Motivational, Perseverance, Wrestling

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3

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• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

  Aesop

  Distance, Army, Diversity

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Military, Heart, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1865). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.96

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• In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Principles, Approval, Popularity

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Believe, Writing

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