Quote by Edward Gibbon
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most comm

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. – Edward Gibbon

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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward Gibbon

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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon

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Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. – Angela Merkel

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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. Its courage that counts. – John Wooden

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Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. – George A. Sheehan

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

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