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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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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

Fortune - Man

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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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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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Sophocles

Actress, Poet, Playwright

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Cautious - Destructiveness - Fall - Feelings - Fortune - Prosperity

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

Dependence - Ethics - Fortune - Happiness - Joy - Man - Unhappy

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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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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Fortune

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Fortune - Mindset - Philosophy

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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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Boethius

Leader, Philosopher, Philosopher

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Fortune - Man - Security

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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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Sophocles

Actress, Poet, Playwright

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Aid - Fortune - Nothing

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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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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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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

Fortune - Inspiration - People - Planet - Speaking

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

Accept - Anger - Bitterness - Engagement - Fortune - Knowledge - People - Salvaging - Trial - Turmoil - Victim - Violence

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