Courage
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The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. - John F. Kennedy
All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
A man full of courage is also full of faith. - Cicero
Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway
The only person whom you really have reason to fear, is yourself. - Langenhoven
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. - Sir Walter Scott
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. - Jeremy Collier
Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill
Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity of honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. - C.S. Lewis
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
Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. - Maya Angelou
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. - E.E. Cummings
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. - Elbert Hubbard
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. - Isabel Allende
Courage is the main quality of leadership, in our opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk—especially in new undertakings. Courage is to initiate something and to keep it going—to have a pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways in our land of opportunity. - Walt Disney
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry