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• Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

  Francis Quarles

  Cutting, Tree, Soldier

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.32

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• Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.

  Franz von Papen

  Crush, Thinking, Revolution

  Letter sent to Adolf Hitler on July 12, 1934. "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, 1946.

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• The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.

  Benjamin Graham

  Simple, Principles, Buying

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• I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, Scared, Persons

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• "Be courageous and keep moving forward"... that's kind of the mantra that I've tried to keep.

  Jesse Brock

  Moving, Mma, Kind

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• Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

  Annie Leonard

  Powerful, Moving, Heart

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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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• One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Men, Meditation

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.2410, e-artnow

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• Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Self, Solitude

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• I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

  Francois Rabelais

  Laughter, Writing, Men

  "The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (Introduction)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1532-1564.

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• Pay no attention to the less courageous.

  Sara Genn

  Courage, Attention, Pay

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• If you are courageous enough to be still, you are a step closer to becoming empowered.

  Romany Malco

  Becoming, Steps, Enough

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

  John Ruskin

  Courage, Race, Rude

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.288

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• The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

  Rebecca West

  Law, Justice, Choices

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Patriotic, Thinking

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VI. "The Paradoxes of Christianity", 1908.

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• It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.

  William Edgar

  People, Devotion To God, Passionate

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• There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Strong, Independent, Faults

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Strong, Commitment, Choices

  "Pope Urges Young People to Care for Environment". www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2007.

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• You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine the new understanding, and , it it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Knowing, Choices, Understanding

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Principles, Individual, Certain

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I surround myself with strong willed, courageous personalities, because I've got to be coached by the best.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Strong, Personality, Surround

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• Honestly, I have s much respect for single moms or anybody who finds themselves a single mother, but to even choose to be single mother is just so courageous to me. It is such a hard job to raise a child and be everything to that child without a partner. It's just admirable and courageous and brave and every other valiant word I can think of. I don't know if I could do it on my own.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us - dollars and all.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Thinking, Fire, Flames

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• If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.

  Tucker Max

  Thinking, Want, Hated

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• Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

  Cornel West

  White, House, Brilliant

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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