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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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.