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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

The brave venture anything.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. This novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.