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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

— Abraham Lincoln

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

— Voltaire

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

— Charles Dickens

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

— Rumi

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

— Bertrand Russell

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

— Virgil

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

— William Shakespeare

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

— Winston Churchill

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time.

— Anne Frank

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

— Søren Kierkegaard

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

— William Shakespeare

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

— Horace

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

— Winston Churchill

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

— Cicero

Do one thing every day that scares you.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The best way out is always through.

— Robert Frost

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

— Marcus Aurelius

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

— Albert Camus

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Freedom lies in being bold.

— Robert Frost

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

— Søren Kierkegaard

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