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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
I believe in blood, soil, and honour; family, homeland, and hamingja; strength, traditions, and courage.
I'm definitely guilty of turning tail and running in places in my life. It's the lack of courage, really.
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.
I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
It takes a certain amount of courage to not be pessimistic. I'd like to believe there is good in everyone.
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Texans deserve a senator who represents our values, strength, courage, independence - putting Texas first.
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.