599 private quotes tagged courage

“Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.” — Edward Albert

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“Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.” — William L. Jenkins

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“The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.” — Van Wyck Brooks

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“In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.” — Frank Capra

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“To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.” — George Crabbe

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“War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.” — Alexander Berkman

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“None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.” — Lydia M. Child

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“Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.” — Josephus Daniels

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“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.” — Jeremy Collier

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“It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.” — Helen Slater

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“Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.” — Mark Pryor

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“It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.” — Judith Rossner

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“There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.” — Silvia Cartwright

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“Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.” — Mary Daly

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“I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.” — Julie Doucet

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“I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.” — Richard Hatch

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“To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.” — Stephen Baker

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“The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.” — Alexandra Fuller

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“Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.” — John Murray

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“Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.” — H. G. Bohn

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“Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.” — William Samuel Johnson

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“Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.” — Walter Lord

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“They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.” — Donald O'Connor

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“There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.” — Alfred P. Sloan

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“If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.” — Jeff Flake

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