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~ For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. ~

James T. Walsh

~ Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems. It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas, flowing through dreams and illuminations.... Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however, it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it.... ~

Caroline Myss

~ The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day. ~

James Callaghan

~ Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. ~

Robert Dale Owen

~ Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence. ~

Francois de Fenelon

~ Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair. ~

Charles Palmer

~ We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. ~

Franklin D. Roosevelt

~ Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~

G.K. Chesterton

~ Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~

Michel de Montaigne

~ Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. ~

Plautus

~ I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory! ~

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

~ People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ~

Graham Greene

~ Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ~

Graham Greene

~ Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~

Lao Tzu

~ Most of us have, in some area or other of our thinking, improper habits of evaluation. For this, society itself is to blame: most societies systematically encourage, concerning certain topics, the habitual confusion of symbols with things symbolized. ~

SI Hayakawa

~ I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ~

Elie Wiesel

~ If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. ~

Reinhold Niebuhr

~ Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insurmountable. ~

Thomas Troward

~ A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. ~

William Graham Sumner

~ Success... (Courage) consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ~

William Ellery Channing

~ Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~

John F. Kennedy

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

E. F. Schumacker

~ In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage. ~

Bill Cosby

~ Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds. ~

Samuel Smiles

~ Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ~

Robert Francis Kennedy

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