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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood."

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Malala Yousafzai Activist, Author
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"We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential."

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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!"

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave."

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John Smith Politician
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"Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king."

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Brené Brown Researcher, author, speaker
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"Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging."

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Eva Green Actress
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"I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen."

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