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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

It is brave to be involved

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

It is not the critic who counts

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.

It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

It is what you do about what happens that counts.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.

It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.

It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.