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Courage
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isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage,
we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true,
merciful, generous, or honest.
-- Maya
Angelou History,
despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need
not be lived again.
-- Maya
Angelou |
Hope is the strongest
driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new
realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage
must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way
of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.
-- Oscar
Arias Sanchez |  |
Moral
excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts,
temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
-- Aristotle
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that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received
- only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice
and courage.
-- Saint
Francis of Assisi |
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"I can't imagine a right
more basic than the right to breathe clean air. We've debated for years how that
might be possible. Now that we know it is, will we have the courage and the conviction
to get there?"
~ Ed
Begley, Jr. |
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"We have a
powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas
and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends."
-- Mary
McLeod Bethune | A
leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
-- James
Callaghan
| You must accept
that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you
can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility,
you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take
the risk.
-- Rosalynn
Carter If
you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have
to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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| "Each
person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on
it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated
but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness
and act on it."
-- Pablo Casals |
Courage
is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down
and listen.
-- Winston Churchill Courage
is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill Courage
is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all
others.
-- Winston Churchill Conscience
is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
-- James Freeman Clarke 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 To
see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
-- Confucius
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"In spite of the six thousand
manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent
and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and,
of course, courage."
-- Bill
Cosby |
An act of love, a
voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage
and love and hope of all.
-- Dorothy
Day |  |
Yesterday
I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
-- Bernadette Devlin |
