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None are so blind as those who will not see.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Nothing but courage can guide life.

Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance..and courage.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Perfect virtue is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.


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