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Courage is not walking into battle with no fear - you should know this as a soldier. Courage is feeling great fear, but walking forward anyway. Lady Lavender by Lynna Banning ↗

— Lynna Banning

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Si nous ne nous conduisons pas tout à fait bien, c’est parce qu’il nous reste, à tous, une vague petite notion de devoir au fond de notre désordre qui fait que nous n’avons pas le courage de nous conduire tout à fait mal. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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...истинное мужество... не в слепом сопротивлении, а в чётком анализе обстоятельств и в умении где-то спорить с ними, а где-то в силу необходимости подчиниться ("чтобы потом эти же обстоятельства подчинить себе...") (Кантор - Ёжики-Матвею Радомиру) ↗

— Vladislav Krapivin

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He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or from death; he neither risks nor stains his hands with blood, nor hears the breathing of his adversary, nor reads the fear, courage, or indifference in his eyes. He who kills from afar tests neither his arm, his heart, nor his conscience, nor does he create ghosts that will later haunt him every single night for the rest of his life. He who kills from afar is a knave who commends to others the dirty and terrible task that is his own. ↗

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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The one who kills runs the risk of destroying the entire world just building up the courage to meet death eye-to-eye. ↗

— Blassreiter Season

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Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man,and hold on to your umbrella! Have you got your garters on? Mind your hat! ("Mr. Arcularis") ↗

— Conrad Aiken

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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

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He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has." "It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling." He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. "I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

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A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride. ↗

— Newton Gatambia

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Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow ↗

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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