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Quote by Maya Angelou
One isnt necessarily born with courage, but one is born with poten

One isnt necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cant be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. – Maya Angelou

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. – Maya Angelou

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You dont develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus

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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didnt have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didnt have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. – Ray Stannard Baker

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