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- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
- It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
- Claude Monet
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- The strongest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle of existence.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- Democracy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone will fail.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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