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Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:55:08 +0000

It takes vision and courage to create; it takes faith and courage to prove.
–Owen D. Young

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:54:53 +0000

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
–Thucydides

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:54:41 +0000

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

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:54:25 +0000

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
–Eddie Rickenbacher

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:54:13 +0000

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
–Ambrose Redmoon

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:54:01 +0000

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
–Channing Pollock

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:53:49 +0000

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
–John Petit-Senn

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:53:36 +0000

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
–Thomas Paine

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:53:03 +0000

Last, but by no means least, courage … moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle … the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
–Douglas Macarthur

Sara — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:47:36 +0000

Running away will never make you free.
–Kenny Loggins