Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

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Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.- John Wayne

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Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs. ― Joseph Stalin

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In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance. ― Joseph Stalin

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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. — Brené Brown.

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I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

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Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength. ― Napoleon Bonaparte

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