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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. -- Michel de Montaigne
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. -- Jeremy Collier
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. -- Alfred North Whitehead
But how cool, how quiet is true courage! -- Fanny Burney
Conscience is the root of all true courage. -- James Freeman Clarke
True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid... -- L. Frank Baum
True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- John Petit-Senn
Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from. -- Phillips Brooks
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. -- Cato the Elder
TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in! -- John Wayne
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience. -- James Freeman Clarke
This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty. -- Charles Kingsley
Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true. -- Sting
In a world full of quitters, it takes true courage to commit to marriage renewal. If you want a field manual for restoring your relationship, get The Phoenix Marriage: God creates beauty out of ashes. -- Tony Jeary
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it. -- Erica Jong
True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.' -- William Bennett
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself. -- Brenda Ueland
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism. -- Jeremy Collier
You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty. -- L. Frank Baum
If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character." -- Charles Alexander Eastman
The truth is that Ron is my hero. He's always there for his friends - sometimes belligerently, but there nevertheless. He's also the comic relief in stressful situations; the funny guy with a great one-liner. And no matter how scared he may be, he will put aside his fears to support and protect the people he loves. To me, that represents true courage. -- Rupert Grint
True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway -- Victor Castelo
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- John Petit-Senn
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. -- James Freeman Clarke
The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life. -- Hill Harper
Optimism is true moral courage. -- Ernest Shackleton
Optimism is the true moral courage -- Ernest Shackleton
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. -- Philip Sidney
Only a true weakling is capable of true courage. -- Gichin Funakoshi
True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses. -- Simon Sinek
True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid. -- L. Frank Baum
The only true measure of courage is perseverance under pressure. -- K.H. LeMoyne
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. -- Franz Kafka
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. -- Alexander Berkman
True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not. -- Jules Renard
I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion. -- Mo Yan
True courage is born only when it is accompanied by justice. -- Mas Oyama
The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men. -- Lynn G. Robbins
Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in. -- Jessica Stern
True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone. -- Richard C. Edgley
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. -- Philip Sidney
Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity. -- Cornel West
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. -- Walt Disney
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan. -- C. S. Lewis
Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life. -- Cesar Chavez
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. -- Walt Disney
True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth. -- Christopher Pike
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -- Nicholas M. Butler
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -- Nicholas M. Butler
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. -- William Congreve
To fear is to lack courage; and to lack courage is to forsake your true abilities. -- Wayne Chirisa
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom. -- Dwight L. Moody
There is no bravery in evil, no true courage in behavior that can only result in deep disappointment. -- Marion D. Hanks
Your true destiny is desperately waiting on you to start thinking, acting, and walking with faith and courage. -- Edmond Mbiaka
What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston. -- Tom Selleck
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true. -- Naz?m Hikmet
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The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true. -- Oprah Winfrey
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. -- Tobias Smollett
To fear is to lack courage; and to lack courage is to forsake your true abilities.By: Wayne Chirisa -- Wayne Chirisa
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. -- Salman Rushdie
Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions. -- Walter Schloss
The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love. -- Alan Cohen
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. -- Bertrand Russell
True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need. -- Pope Francis
Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future. -- Jeanette Lee
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. -- Jean Baudrillard
Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. -- Bruce Feiler
True courage is not the absence of fear; it is refusing to let fear control your actions. ~ from the book "Do Hard Things -- Alex & Brett Harris
you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear. -- Maia Wojciechowska
True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it. -- William J. Clinton
Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in. -- Ursula Burns
To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them. -- Picabo Street
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire -- Eduardo Galeano
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there. -- Paul Bourget
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will... -- Ben Okri
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency. -- Charlton Heston
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. -- Plutarch
The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence. -- Walt Disney
True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going. -- Rita Ora
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever. -- Franz Kafka
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. -- Carl Sagan
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook. -- James Keller
When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don't let it stop you, that is true courage. There's never bravery without fear. Just as there's no love without hate. (M'Adoc) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself. -- Debbie Ford
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth! -- Yvonne Pierre

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