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• Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

  Robertson Davies

  Adversity, Ordinary Extraordinary, People

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.62, Harmony

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• Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Fear, Nice

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2013

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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Bravery, Excellence

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

  Erwin McManus

  Inspirational, Fear, Self

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2004). “The Uprising Experience: A Personal Guide for a Revolution of the Soul, Promise Keepers Edition”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

  Alan Cohen

  Life, Change, Meaningful

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

  J. G. Holland

  Fighting, Blow, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 166, 1895.

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• To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

  Jane Elliott

  Oppressors

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• Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  Rollo May

  Moving, Despair, Absence

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Common Sense, Taste

  Notes to Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) "Julius Caesar"

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• Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.138, Beacon Press

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• It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
  [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit.
  Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

  Plautus

  Men, Clients, Doe

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  Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

  Cornel West

  Hope, Compassion, People

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 16, 2010

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• Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cutting, Fire, Purpose

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.356

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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 Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Bravery, Independence

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• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

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• Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

  Amy Chua

  Bravery, Language, Accents

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

  Aristotle

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Aristotle, John Burnet (1967). “Aristotle on Education: Extracts from the Ethics and Politics”, p.63, CUP Archive

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• I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

  Bill Richardson

  Inspirational, Differences, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

  John Cage

  Accepting, Unafraid, Consequence

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• Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Giving

  "Vatican denies claim that Pope Francis failed to protect Argentina priests" By Laura Smith-Spark, Hada Messia, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2013.

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• One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.

  Donna Levin

  Dream, Morning, Believe

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• You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Dream, Believe In Yourself

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• Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Encouraging, Failure, Mean

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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