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• He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He thought me courageous? But I was terrified - always terrified. 'No,' I said flatly. 'I don't." He paused from stuffing the invaluable robe between two bales. 'Are you frightened now?' I nodded, shame flushing my skin. 'Is it going to stop you?' 'No.' 'That is the courage of a warrior.

  Alison Goodman

  Warrior, Two, Clothes

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• To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

  Tariq Ramadan

  Voice, Voiceless, Be Courageous

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• There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women are at once gentle, reflective, firm; steeped with a sense of self, the lives of women growing older are lives of care, toil, splendour and glory... the future is not to be feared.

  Jocelynne Scutt

  Strong, Women, Reality

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• In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

  Anne Frank

  Children, Pain, War

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from May 10, 2015

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• To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

  David Cottrell

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  David Cottrell, Eric Lee Harvey (2004). “Leadership Courage: Leadership Strategies for Individual and Organizational Success”, p.17, The Walk The Talk Company

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• Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky:
  R: Ravishing, I: Impress,
  C: Courageous or Careless,
  K: for the Kangols which I've got,
  That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

  Slick Rick

  Rap, Names, Hip Hop

  Song: Mona Lisa, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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• If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Quality, Acting, Want

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• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Courage, Fear, Reptiles

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

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• I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Courage, Moving, Keys

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• Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Couple, Divorce, Should Have

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• The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

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• There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.

  Jules Verne

  Horse, Animal, Rocks

  Jules Verne (2016). “EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS “ Complete Collection: 41 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery and Suspense: Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and many more”, p.363, e-artnow

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• I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.'

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dad, Boys, People

  "Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. December 5, 2002.

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• Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Baby, Cutting, People

  Eva Ibbotson (2006). “The Star of Kazan”, Puffin

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• I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she must do no more than hold out her hand, and the finch lands on her finger and does not fly. You scarcely dare to move. It rests on your hand whole and free, foolishly trusting and infinitely courageous. It will never be more beautiful.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Beautiful, Moving, Hands

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• Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Grateful, Exercise, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1963). “The Thomas Jefferson Papers”, Dodd

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• To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

  Graham Greene

  Love Is, Two, Honor

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• There are no have-to's, just choices

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Choices

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• My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

  Anton Chekhov

  Business, Thinking, Artist

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• You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Attitude, Circumstances

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• Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Fearless

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• May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Stress, Commitment

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• From caring comes courage.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Strong

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• Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

  Rajneesh

  Life, Encounters, Mystery

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