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Former President of the United States

I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

Bravery - Challenge - End

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Bravery - Laughing

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Alexander Hamilton

Economist, Lawyer, Military Commander, Founding Father of the United States

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.

Engagement - Man - Opposition - Pursuit

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Aristotle

Philosopher

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Bravery - Man

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Achievement - Arguing - Conflict - Emptiness - Improvement - Inspiration - Opposition - Sometimes - Victory

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Bravery - Intimacy - People - Thinking

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.

Apology - Help - Honesty - Mistake - Opposition

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

Bravery - Guilt - Madness

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

Discovery - Embarrassment - Facts - Impulse - Kindness - Leadership - Modern - Mythology - Opportunity - Opposition - Respect - Sameness - Science - Time - Universe - Wishing

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Anais Nin

Writer

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adventure - Bravery - Confidence - Empowerment - Fear - Inspiration - Life - Motivation - Woman

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Homer

Poet

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

Absence - Bravery - Children - Feelings - Home - Man - Parents - Thinking

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

Bravery - Man

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Bravery

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

Death - Opposition - Speaking

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Finding - Human - Motivation - Opposition - Urgency - Wellness

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Bravery - Death - Martyr

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Bravery - Conquering - Emotions - Feelings - Independence - Inspiration - Man - Overcome - Triumph

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Bravery - Consciousness - Guilt - Intimidation

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Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Bravery - Man - Remembering

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Neil Gaiman

Author, Screenwriter

It’s a New Year and with it comes a fresh opportunity to shape our world. So this is my wish, a wish for me as much as it is a wish for you: in the world to come, let us be brave – let us walk into the dark without fear, and step into the unknown with smiles on our faces, even if we’re faking them. And whatever happens to us, whatever we make, whatever we learn, let us take joy in it. We can find joy in the world if it’s joy we’re looking for, we can take joy in the act of creation. So that is my wish for you, and for me. Bravery and joy.

Bravery - Creativity - Joy - Opportunity - Wishing - World

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