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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. – Jean Paul Richter

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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. – Thomas Aquinas

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Deep Throats information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected. – Bob Woodward

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. – George Konrad

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