I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
- Lucille Ball
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Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
- Winston Churchill
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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
- Mary Daly
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Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
- Winston Churchill
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
- Winston Churchill
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Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
- Maya Angelou
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis
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Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce
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Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
- Rollo May
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Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
- John F. Kennedy
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Nothing but courage can guide life.
- Vauvenargues
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Wealth lost-something lost; Honor lost-much lost; Courage lost-all lost.
- Old German proverb
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully
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In politics, guts is all.
- Barbara Castle
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In difficult situations, when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are safest.
- Livy
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Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
- Baltasar Gracian
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That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
- Ruby Dee
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
- Herodotus
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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
- Homer
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In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
- Horace
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The brave venture anything.
- Anonymous
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It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.
- Homer
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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again, and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Fortune helps the brave.
- Virgil
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
- Publilius Syrus
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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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God helps the brave.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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Fortune befriends the bold.
- John Dryden
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Ovid
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Fortune favors the audacious.
- Erasmus
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Audacity has made kings.
- Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion
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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
- Georges Jacques Danton
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With audacity one can undertake anything.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
- Preston Bradley
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
- Jean Anouilh
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Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.
- Thomas Fuller
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Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
- Mary W. Stewart
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
- Annie Besant
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Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them.
- Ben Ames Williams
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
- Confucius
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
- Anais Nin
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Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!
- Joseph Conrad
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If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and [if] there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
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He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
- Plutarch
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He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
- Thomas Fuller
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He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
- Thomas Fuller
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Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
- Henry Miller
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Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
- John Dewey
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The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
- Joseph Farrell
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I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
- William J. Lock
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No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties, and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Lucille Ball
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Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
- Winston Churchill
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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
- Mary Daly
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Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
- Winston Churchill
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
- Winston Churchill
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Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
- Maya Angelou
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
- C. S. Lewis
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Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
- Clare Boothe Luce
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Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
- Rollo May
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Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
- John F. Kennedy
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Nothing but courage can guide life.
- Vauvenargues
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Wealth lost-something lost; Honor lost-much lost; Courage lost-all lost.
- Old German proverb
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully
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In politics, guts is all.
- Barbara Castle
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In difficult situations, when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are safest.
- Livy
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Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
- Baltasar Gracian
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That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
- Ruby Dee
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
- Herodotus
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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
- Homer
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In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
- Horace
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The brave venture anything.
- Anonymous
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It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.
- Homer
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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again, and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Fortune helps the brave.
- Virgil
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
- Publilius Syrus
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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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God helps the brave.
- J. C. F. von Schiller
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Fortune befriends the bold.
- John Dryden
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Ovid
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Fortune favors the audacious.
- Erasmus
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Audacity has made kings.
- Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion
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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
- Georges Jacques Danton
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With audacity one can undertake anything.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
- Preston Bradley
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
- Jean Anouilh
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Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.
- Thomas Fuller
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Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
- Mary W. Stewart
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
- Annie Besant
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Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them.
- Ben Ames Williams
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later.
- Confucius
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
- Anais Nin
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Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!
- Joseph Conrad
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If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and [if] there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
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He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
- Plutarch
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He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
- Thomas Fuller
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He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
- Thomas Fuller
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Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
- Henry Miller
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Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
- John Dewey
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The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
- Joseph Farrell
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I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
- William J. Lock
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No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties, and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
