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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Robert Cushing

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

The Impossible Dream To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear the unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go To write the unwritable wrong To be better far than you are To try when your arms are too weary The reach the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow that star No matter how hopeless, No matter how far To fight for the right Whithout question or pause To be willing to march into hell For a heavenly cause And I know if I'll only be true To this glorious quest That my heart will be peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world would be better for this That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star music by Leigh.

Joe Darion

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

La Rochefoucauld

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Channing Pollock

It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.

Mark Twain

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.

Don Quixote

Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Douglas Macarthur

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ; is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other. -Douglas MacArthur.

Douglas Macarthur

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

James Allen

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Francis Bacon

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Roscoe Snowden

Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

Alfonso X

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Cecil B. Voltaire

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Isaac Newton

Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

Horace Walpole

There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Don Marquis

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy.

William Shakespeare

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

J. Bartlett

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Carolyn Wells

Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here; The daisy, fresh from nature's sleep, Tells of His hand in lines as clear.

John Mason Good

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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