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• And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving God who has blessed this land and thus made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms. It's time to welcome Him back, because whenever we've opened ourselves and trusted in Him, we've gained not only moral courage but intellectual strength.

  Ronald Reagan

  Religious, Believe, Blessed

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• The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Courage, Sacrifice, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.60

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• An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

  John By

  Successful, Engineering, Accomplishment

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• The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

  Marlon Brando

  Money, Hollywood, Moral

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• That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Success, Time, Work

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.202, Hackett Publishing

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• Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Integrity, Men, Practice

  William Lloyd Garrison (1832). “Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color”, p.6

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• The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Skills

  "Dare to disagree". TED conference, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.

  Billy Graham

  Sorry, Men, Vitality

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Challenges, Moral, Idiot

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• Have the courage to face the truth

  W. Clement Stone

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Cancer, Grief

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.67, BookBaby

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Courage, Brave, World

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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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

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

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

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• Optimism is true moral courage.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Life, Happiness, Optimism

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• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

  W. Clement Stone

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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