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    Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
    "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
    Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
    That the defect; better the more than less;
    Better like Hector in the field to die,
    Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.

by Amelia Earhart Found in: Courage Quotes,
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As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It read more

As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

by Joseph Conrad Found in: Courage Quotes,
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

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Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

by Christine Comaford Found in: Courage Quotes,
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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

by Eddie Rickenbacker Found in: Courage Quotes,
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

by Anais Nin Found in: Courage Quotes,
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Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

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We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is
happening to our neighbours.

We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is
happening to our neighbours.

by Joseph Chamberlain Found in: Courage Quotes,
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

by Mark Twain Found in: Courage Quotes,
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