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"What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful? It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and the courage of conviction."	David L(yle) Boren
"'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it."	Joan Borysenko
"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."	Van Wyck Brooks
"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness."	Jerome Seymour Bruner
"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone."	Gale Brook Burket
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."	Lewis Carroll
"Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in."	Wanda Carter
"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."	Miguel de Cervantes
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."	Miguel de Cervantes
"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony."	William Ellery Channing
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage."	William Ellery Channing
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion."	John Anthony Ciardi
"Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game."	Jerry Coleman
"No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage."	J. Lawton Collins
"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."	Confucius
"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."	Joseph Conrad
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Adam L. Gordon	Aesop	Albert Camus
Albert Einstein	Alexander Michael	Alfred Adler
Alvaro de Solva	Ambrose Bierce	Amelia Earhart
Anatole France	Andrew Johnson	Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson
André Gide	Annie Besant	Aristotle
Athenæus	Author Unknown	Baltasar Gracian
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Edmonds
Bertie Forbes	Brendan Francis Behan	B. J. Gupta
Celeste Holm	Charles Hamilton Aide	Charles Luckman
Charles Mathias, Jr.	Confucius	Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Corra Harris	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	David Ben-Gurion
David L(yle) Boren	Dean Koontz	Doris Lessing
Doris Wild Helmering	Douglas MacArthur	Dwight David Eisenhower
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	D. A. Battista	Earl Nightingale
Edward Morgan Forster	Elizabeth Harrison	Elmer Holmes Davis
Erica Mann Jong	Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway
Euripides	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	Franklin P. Adams
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon	Gale Brook Burket	Geoffrey F. Abert
George Burton Adams	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Helen Adams Keller
Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Kaufman	Hoshang N. Akhtar
Hubert H. Humphrey	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Maritain
Jean Anouilh	Jerome Seymour Bruner	Jerry Coleman
Jim Davis	Joan Borysenko	Joan L. Curcio
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John Anthony Ciardi
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	John W(illiam) Gardner
Joseph Addison	Joseph Conrad	Joshua 1:9 Bible
Julian Weber Gordon	Julie Arabi	J. Lawton Collins
K. D. Lang	Lao-Tzu	Lewis Carroll
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lisa Alther	Lloyd Alexander
Lucille Ball	Mark Twain	Mark McGee
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Bertone	Mary Tyler Moore
Maxwell Maltz	Maya Angelou	Menander
Mignon McLaughlin	Miguel de Cervantes	Missy Good
Napolean Bonaparte	Napoleon I	Newt Gingrich
Noel Coward	Paula Giddings	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
Phyllis McGinley	Psalm 27: 13-14 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raymond Lindquist	Reinhold Niebuhr	Reinhold Neibuhr
Richard	Richard Louis Evans	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Albert Bloch	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll
Rodan of Alexandria	Ruth Gordon	Saint Francis of Assisi
Siddha Nagarjuna	Sidney Madwed	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Walter Besant	Sir William Arthur	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sophia Loren	Stephen R. Covey	Susanna Moodie
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Paine
Thomas Alva Edison	Van Wyck Brooks	Vicki Baum
Victor Hugo	Victoria Lincoln	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Walt(er) Elias Disney	Wanda Carter	Warren G. Bennis
William Blake	William Ellery Channing	William Franklin "Billy" Graham
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	"Joe"	(John) Calvin Coolidge
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