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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. -- Thomas Moore
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. -- Renee Fleming
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers. -- Diane Ackerman
You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. -- Kenny Loggins
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. -- Maxwell Maltz
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. -- Emile Hirsch
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
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. -- William Hurt
Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability. -- Claron McFadden
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build. -- Nicolas Berggruen
I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. -- Maxwell Maltz
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. -- Daniel Dennett
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. -- Andre Malraux
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. -- Hillary Clinton
You won't take risk without courage. -- Andy Stanley
Courage means willing to risk everything. -- Sanford Meisner
Love always requires courage and involves risk. -- M. Scott Peck
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. -- Rollo May
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. -- Nigel Dennis
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. -- Paul Tillich
What is courage without risk... It wouldn't really be courage, would it? -- Jocelyn Murray
You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything. -- Maya Angelou
Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure. -- George Leonard
It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.' -- Robert G. Allen
What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection? -- William Shatner
Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes. -- Robin Hobb
Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk. -- Stacy Allison
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. -- Brene Brown
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. -- Brene Brown
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. -- Rollo May
Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage. -- Amy Andrews
I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk. -- John Assaraf
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. -- Nigel Dennis
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
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives. -- Brennan Manning
Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history. -- John Howard
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
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame. -- Alexander the Great
A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again. -- Christine Caine
Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow. -- Simon Sinek
When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey. -- Henry Kimsey-House
When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey. -- Henry Kimsey-House
Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk. -- Robert Biswas-Diener
I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise. -- Michael Beschloss

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