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  • I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion. -- Mo Yan
  • On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut. -- Marvin Olasky
  • If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. -- Brian Baird
  • I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that was the highest quality of the human animal. I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it. -- Dorothea Lange
  • Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity. -- Napoleon Hill
  • The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. -- Christopher Paolini
  • You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin -- Nobuhiro Watsuki
  • I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth. -- Josh Lanyon
  • There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. -- Catherine Anderson
  • Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage. -- Horace Walpole
  • Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. -- Christopher Paolini
  • I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. -- Harper Lee
  • I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. -- Harper Lee
  • Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. -- Christopher Paolini
  • [...] it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone. -- Matthew Polly
  • Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone. -- Matthew Polly
  • Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage. -- Elie Metchnikoff
  • To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage -- Anonymous
  • Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con. -- Carolyn Hax
  • It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
  • The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch -- Harper Lee
  • America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. -- Albert Camus
  • Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. -- Jean Anouilh
  • Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. -- Timothy Dalton
  • It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. -- John Eldredge
  • Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. -- Harper Lee
  • We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward. -- Al Gore
  • The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage. -- Nikki Haley
  • When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.' -- Stacy Schiff
  • I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here. -- Paul Bremer
  • I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. -- Susana Martinez
  • When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. -- Ricky Williams
  • President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage. -- Ken Salazar
  • 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
  • It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -- Alan Cohen
  • Students teach all sorts of things but most importantly they make explicit the courage that it takes to be a learner, the courage it takes to open yourself to the transformative power of real learning and that courage I am exposed to almost every day at MIT and that I'm deeply grateful for. -- Junot Diaz
  • From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage. -- Franz Kafka
  • It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient. -- Judi Dench
  • Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph. -- Max Lucado
  • Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you. -- Michael Phelps
  • The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. -- Pete Seeger
  • To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality. -- David Walker
  • But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees. -- Alan Hirsch
  • Anybody Can Hate. Hate is Easy...Living Side by Side with Compassion, Tolerance and Respect Takes Real Courage. -- Jeffrey A. White
  • There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions. -- Jill Stein
  • Real men don't buy girls-they protect them. We're recruiting real men who have the courage to stand up against this issue. -- Demi Moore
  • So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it. -- Robin S
  • The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.... -- Andrew Jenson
  • Start to become active in what u love DOING. People admire action, courage&real happiness far more than they admire a size 2 -- Daphne Zuniga
  • 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
  • To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is. -- Bruce Lee
  • Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody. -- Justin Cronin
  • Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. -- Michael E. DeBakey
  • Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star. -- Joan Crawford
  • What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none. -- William Graham Sumner
  • It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. -- Alan Cohen
  • Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again -- David Clement-Davies
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