599 private quotes tagged courage

“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” — Mary Tyler Moore

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“I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.” — Caroline Kennedy

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“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.” — Thomas S. Monson

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“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” — John W. Gardner

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“Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” — Jim Davis

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“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” — Herbert Kaufman

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“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.” — George W. Bush

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“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.” — Jean Paul

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“Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse

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“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.” — Moliere

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“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.” — George Santayana

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“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.” — Joseph Addison

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“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.” — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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“When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.” — Charles Stanley

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“Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.” — Desmond Tutu

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“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.” — William Hazlitt

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“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.” — Les Brown

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“Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.” — Gary Oldman

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“People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.” — Jim Valvano

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“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.” — Margaret Walker

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“In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?” — Virgil

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