Courage
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I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
One 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.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
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