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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no – be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.

Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It’s about time for writers – particularly those who are genuine artists – to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

You can’t test courage cautiously.

Trust God for your current life circumstances and believe that He has called you this day to be courageous.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.