"It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy."

Aristotle on courage
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"The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale"

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova on courage
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"Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid."

Brande, Dorothea on courage   

"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."

Cervantes, Miguel De on courage
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"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De on courage
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"Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee."

Deuteronomy on courage
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"The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else."

Jensen, Andrew on courage
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"Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence."

Kennedy, Robert F. on courage
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"It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life."

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth on courage
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di on courage
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"As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly."

Akhenaton on courage
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."

Conrad, Joseph on courage
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evil
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hell
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."

King Jr. Martin Luther on freedom
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

King Jr. Martin Luther on justice
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"Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts."

Russell, Foster M. on justice
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"Let justice be done through the heavens fall."

Maxim, Roman on justice   

"I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness."

Lindsay, Vachel on justice   

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

King Jr. Martin Luther on death
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"Nothing pains some people more than having to think."

King Jr. Martin Luther on thoughts and thinking
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"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."

King Jr. Martin Luther on right and rightness
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

King Jr. Martin Luther on reality
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking
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"There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on goals   

"Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on strength   

"We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on correction   

"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."

Sidney, Sir Philip on credulity
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"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."

Christie, Agatha on regret
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