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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

“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

“The best protection any woman can have... is courage.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

William Congreve

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

Ruby Dee

“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

“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”

Jacqueline Bisset

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”

Earl Wilson

“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.”

David Cameron

“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”

William Blackstone

“Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.”

Scott Hamilton

“I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.”

Maria Mitchell

“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”

Benito Mussolini

“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.”

William Alexander

“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”

Pericles

“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”

Charles Lindbergh

“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”

Charles Caleb Colton

“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'”

Lady Gaga

“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”

Robert Green Ingersoll

“It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”

The Unnamable, 1954. Book.

Samuel Beckett