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“Don’t think that trying to make something ‘right’ because you wish to engage in that which is ‘wrong’ is going to fool your conscience.”

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“Too frequently we assume that mankind possesses the right to avoid all that is wrong in a world that has long forgotten that a great wrong sets the stage to do a greater right.”

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“I don’t wish for a perfect life, for in doing so I will have discarded the tremendous opportunities for great good that lay hidden in the greatest bad.”

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“Because some decision hurts us beyond measure does not mean that that decision is wrong beyond explanation, for some of the most vital decisions we will ever make are often the most painful ones that we will ever experience.”

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“I would rather lose the battle to my enemy than lose my integrity in the way that I fought the battle with my enemy.”

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“There’s a really good chance that I’ve confused what I ‘need’ with what I ‘want.’ And if that’s the case, I’m looking for both in the wrong place.”

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“If our goal is to discover the easy way, there’s a really good chance that we will stumble upon the wrong way, which is anything but an easy way.”

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“We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.”

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“If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.”

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“If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.”

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“Courage is fear constrained, not fear absent.”

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“Unless someone ‘stands-in-the-gap,’ the gap itself will be overrun by those who embody the lesser ideals that crush great nations and enslave the people that have sacrificed to build those nations. And it is the veteran who both understood that reality and therefore chose to stand.”

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“Wisdom is the courage to embrace a truth that we may not find favorable because the pursuit of our agenda in the face of such a truth is certain to be anything but favorable.”

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“Courage will doom every failure to certain failure.”

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“To imagine means being brave enough to refute the confines of the coward.”

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“It’s not winning the battle. It’s having been brave enough to fight it.”

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“Courage without wisdom is arrogance on a mad rant.”

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“I would have sworn that the leap was going to end in disaster. I had applied the rubrics of fear and tediously calculated the nature of the risk, thereby adamantly determining it to be impossible. Yet, high in the lofty branches of the towering maple tree the squirrel leapt, and in doing so made it look effortless. And I thought, “How many times have I applied the rubrics of fear, overestimated the leap, and have therefore chosen to exist in a forest of one tree?” Therefore, my commitment in the coming year is to live in a forest of many trees.”

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“The heart of a giant is never bound by the size of the man.”

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“The exercise of faith is to risk moving beyond the logic of men and in doing so realizing that the real risk would have been not to move.”

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“Strip away all self-interest, embrace self-sacrifice as the noblest of all pursuits, see your existence as the asset that amplifies the existence of another; embrace these things and courage will finally have a place to be courageous.”

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“If you don’t believe that there is giant somewhere within you, you will believe that there is nothing to awaken. Yet you might wish to remember that a sleeping giant is never the absence of a giant.”

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“You can’t ‘cancel’ courage.”

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“The people who believe that ethics, morals, and values are the product of a by-gone era are the very people for which that by-gone era existed.”

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“One of the greatest feats of bravery is to acknowledge the presence of cowardice, but to refuse the possibility of surrender.”

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“I wish for an indomitable courage that is spawned by the conviction that without liberty we are without life. I want to possess a breathless passion persistently driven by the understanding that unless liberty is running untethered and free, all is slavery. And I want to be so desperately thirsty for these that I should I need to die for them in order to possess them, I would gladly do so. It is out these convictions that great people are raised up and great nations are born.”

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“I am greatness broken to baseness. And if I gather sufficient courage to actually hear the message of the Gospel, I will embrace my baseness so that God might restore my greatness.”

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“The greatest act of bravery is to admit that we’re not.”

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“The height of the tree is never measured in feet. Rather, it is measured by the courage of those who seek to climb it. Therefore, one tree can have many heights.”

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“The only time that I really lost a war was when I refused to fight the next one.”

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“The degree of my commitment to a cause will not be in direct proportion to the degree that ‘I am willing’ to sacrifice for it. Rather, it will be in direct proportion to the degree that ‘I am sacrificing’ for it.”

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“Brave words are only brave when they birth the actions that they speak of.”

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“Triumph is not having achieved. Triumph is being determined to achieve.”

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“It is easy to speak of bravery, but it is difficult to live the words.”

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“I can weave thousands of words into moving syntax and powerful prose. But if I lay the pen down at the close of the final sentence, and if in doing so I myself have not acted on the words that I have woven, it would have been better had I said nothing.”

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“Let our actions be our words.”

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“I would wonder if one of the greatest acts of bravery is to admit that we are not, but to act the part anyway.”

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“When life turns dark and we’re pounded by the gale force winds of adversity, things are different. It is in such a maelstrom that the power of our principles are either shown to be steadfast or fall fast.”

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“I’m not brave. I just refuse to be a coward.”

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“Bravery is courage in action.”

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“It is natural to doubt. It is part of our humanity to fear. But the greater part of us is that which doubts both and fears neither.”

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“Despite how crowded it might be, you can always find a seat on the sidelines of life. However, not all empty seats should be sat in.”

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“Weeds are the things that choose to be persistent despite the reality that they’re going to get pulled.”

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“The courage in chasing any dream rests in our refusal not to chase it.”

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“The hallmark of all great journeys is the decision to walk directly into that which we would otherwise seek to escape.”

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“Many times there’s only one way to get something done and a thousand ways that it can’t be done. And far too often we can’t see the ‘one’ because we can’t see past the ‘thousand.”

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“It’s easy to spot a hero. They’re the ones who refuse the title.”

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“The greatest risk is not risking.”

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“It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the fear. That is what bothers me.”

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“What we should fear the most is fearing what we shouldn’t.”

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