Courage

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COURAGE: It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Unknown Source)
COURAGE: Courage demands a temporary surrender of security. (Gail Sheehy, U.S. author, journalist, and lecturer, Born 1937)
COURAGE: One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)
COURAGE: Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
COURAGE: Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it. (Marcelene Cox, U.S. writer, 1899-1998)
COURAGE: We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
COURAGE: It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
COURAGE: Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. (George Smith Patton, Jr., U.S. World War II general of the Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy, 1885-1945)
COURAGE: It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
COURAGE: Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George, British politician who served as the Prime Minister during World War I, 1863-1945)
COURAGE: You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer and navigator who completed 4 voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, 1451-1506)
COURAGE: And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Anais Nin, French-born novelist, 1903-1977)
COURAGE: Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. (Unknown source)