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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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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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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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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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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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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

Adoration - Bravery - Sport - Weakness

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John Steinbeck

Writer, War Correspondent

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

Bravery - Man - Strength - Wants - Wisdom

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Bravery - Fortune

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

Bravery - Opposition

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Homer

Poet

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Bravery - Cowardice - Man

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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

Bravery - Equality - Fighting - Man - Morals

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