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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” — Anne Frank

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“The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.” — Terri Clark

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“The best protection any woman can have... is courage.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.” — George W. Bush

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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.” — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.” — William Congreve

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“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.” — Ruby Dee

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“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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