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• Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

  Chris Bradford

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber

  Robin Hobb

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

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• You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

  L. Frank Baum

  Needs, Faces, Kind

  L. Frank Baum (1998). “The Wonderful World of Oz: The Wizard of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz”, p.80, Penguin

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• Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

  Clarence Darrow

  Peace, Attitude, Men

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.89, Ohio University Press

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• True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice.

  Mas Oyama

  Justice, Born

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• Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Gang, Infamous

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.378

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• True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.

  Jeremy Collier

  Courage, Lying, Brave

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• In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspirational, Flames, Choices

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

  John Wayne

  Scared, Saddles, Stills

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• Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Happiness, Success, Capable

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• True courage is the willingness to fully experience whatever you are feeling at the moment. You can attempt to run from your emotions, but eventually they will catch up with you. They will chase you, haunt you, until finally you give up the chase.

  Brandon Bays

  Running, Giving Up, Feelings

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• True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

  Debbie Ford

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

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• The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Sacrifice, Important, Civilized Nations

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Giving, Feelings

  Charles Kingsley (1849). “Twenty-five Village Sermons”, p.262

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• Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Vices, Looks, Tricks

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.121

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• Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  Plutarch

  Men, Differences, Bravery

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• There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Disappointment, Evil, Bravery

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• Dreams are reality that has not become true. However, in the hearts of some people, they have already come true. People whose dreams are already achieved in their hearts, and who can see that as they boldly throw themselves into it, have true courage.

  Ilchi Lee

  Dream, Heart, Reality

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from May 21, 2014

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• If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Courage, Character, Self

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.23, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

  Sting

  Courage, Pain, Bravery

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.202, Dial Press

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• True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Cowardice, Middle

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• True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'

  William Bennett

  Healthy, Way, Done

  William J. Bennett (1993). “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories”, Simon and Schuster

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• Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Creation, Born

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• True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

  Tobias Smollett

  Storm, Action, Speak

  Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.189

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• Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

  Philip Sidney

  Fear, Painful, Cowardice

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.101

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