The Courage

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“All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.”

– Herodotus, Greek Historian

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“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”

– Victor Hugo, Writer

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“Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.”

– Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

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“Freedom lies in being bold.”

– Robert Frost, Poet

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“Courage is rarely reckless or foolish. Courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.”

– Margaret Truman, Author

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“The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

– Robert Ingersoll, Orator

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“Fortune favors the audacious.”

– Desiderius Erasmus, Theologian

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“I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”

– Eudora Welty, Writer

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“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.”

– Ayn Rand, Novelist

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“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer

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“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.”

– Ruth Gordon, Actress

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“Courage is grace under pressure.”

– Ernest Hemingway, Writer

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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

– C.S Lewis, Novelist

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“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.””

– Earl Wilson, Columnist

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“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

– Samuel Johnson, Lexicographer

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“Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.”

– Special Olympics Motto

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

– Nicholas M. Butler, Educator

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady

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“Ingenuity – plus courage, plus work – equals miracles.”

– Bob Richards, Olympic Gold Medalist

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“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President

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“A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.”

– Robert Kiyosaki, Author

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“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.”

– Dr. Robert Anthony, Motivational Coach

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“Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”

– David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

– James Baldwin, Writer

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“A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”

– James Garfield, 20th President of the United States

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“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”

– Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anaïs Nin, Author

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“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

– Muhammad Ali, Boxer

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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”

– Mark Twain, Writer

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“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”

– John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the U.S.

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“Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust God, and do.”

– Norman Schwarzkopf, Army General

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“Courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior, and I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.”

– David Letterman, Talk Show Host

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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

– Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

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“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.”

– Corra Harris, Writer

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“A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave five minutes longer.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

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“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

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“If bravery is a quality which knows not fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.”

– George Patton, General

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“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear… While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.”

– Joseph Campbell, Mythologist

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August 24,2015 王文堯 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.CAll photos were taken from National Geographic THE END 40