To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Confucius
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Oriana Fallaci
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Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
Bruce Feiler
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos
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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
Kenneth L. Pike
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
Q-Tip
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Political courage is not political suicide.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.
Sarah Kay
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Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
Robert Crumb
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I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone - children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.
Kristian Bush
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
August Strindberg
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
Ray Bradbury
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Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.
Tom Tancredo
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Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
Klaus Schwab
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple songs at home and, with a little encouragement, I got more courage and found my voice. I have people and movements who have inspired me to carry on, but I try to write about things I know, nothing too complicated, really.
Withered Hand
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
Paul Johnson
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Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Robert Anthony
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You have to have a spirit of courage and adventure, or else you're going to find it tough to get up in the morning sometimes.
Justine Musk
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I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
Alija Izetbegovic
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