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• Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

  Peter Senge

  Courage, Destiny, Personal Mastery

  Peter Senge, Art Kleiner (2011). “The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization”, p.315, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

  Aristotle

  Cowardly

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• Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

  Jewel

  Courage, Greatest Love, Nothing To Lose

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• There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

  George F. Kennan

  Stubborn, World, Opinion

  "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History". Book by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, September 5, 2017.

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• At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way.

  Thomas Leland

  Dream, Perseverance, Heart

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

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

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• Today's Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

  T. Harv Eker

  Today, Spite, Declaration

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 13, 2016

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• Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

  Alfred Adler

  Risk, Guarantees, Behavior

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

  Hyman Rickover

  Life, Motivational, Patience

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• I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Boys, Order

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.21, UPNE

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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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• U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

  Robert Fisk

  Thinking, Government, Journalist

  The Progressive Interview with Matthew Rothschild, July 1, 1998.

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• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Courage, Time

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• Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pregnancy, Self, Defense

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.815, Open Road Media

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• You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!

  Pope John Paul II

  Fearless, Needs, World

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• Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Father, Persistence, Brave

  "A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents" by Ken Blackwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

  Anita Roddick

  Courage, Healing, Left

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• The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

  Laura Dern

  Behaviour, Humans, Human Behaviour

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• And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Pain, Men, Thinking

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• Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

  William Hurt

  Long, Risk, Study

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• May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Joy, Understanding, Humanity

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• Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Courage, Fighting, Enough

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• For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Courage, Men

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• Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in spite of fear. Courageous people never really overcome their fears. They just become determined to push through them and to use that adrenaline to their advantage.

  Jeff Myers

  People, Overcoming, Use

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