In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Mike Krzyzewski
"To be compassionate, you have to forget your own comfort zone and live well because you live beyond yourself."
Unknown
"Anxiety and Afraid of being rejected, have always been the killer/s of our dreams........Sounds like this story has been already told by me?"
Unknown
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EMTs learned to love brave patients--they weren't nearly such a pain in the ass as the whiners--but not to trust them. In the name of courage, they would hide symptoms, not ask for help when there was help hovering around them anxious to give them succor...
Nevada Barr
"I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick."
Paul Monette
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Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous.
Luther Standing Bear
"I had had my night of weeping...I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose."
Elizabeth Peters
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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
"It is your life and you have to live your life as you want but you must have courage to pay by your self for the life which you are living , if someone other is paying by their tears and grief for your enjoyment ,then you are living a shameful life."
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
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But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
Paul Berg
"Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation."
Jack Kornfield
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The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.
Cheryl Mills
"Bravery hides in amazing places."
Kiera Cass
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Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…But even the great can tremble with fear.Even the great can fall.
Mary E. Pearson
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Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes.
Author
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Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.
R. I. Fitzhenry
"I am strong enough to forgive."
Anonymous
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You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.
Don DeLillo
"I’m thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest."
Anonymous
"Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?"