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Courage

39 souls carry this. Every one shows a real answer before you take it.

LeadershipDisciplineLoyaltyResilienceStorytellingHumorPatienceHonestyAmbitionInvesting

All 39.

Watergate Publisher2 credits
Katharine Graham

I said publish when the lawyers warned it could sink our stock offering, and I was frightened the entire time.

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Self-Made Empire Builder2 credits
Madam C.J. Walker

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I had a dollar and a half a day from the wash-tub and a formula in a tin.

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Pink With Teeth Founder2 credits
Whitney Wolfe Herd

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Make the first move. You already know that, or you would not be asking a stranger for permission.

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Plain-English Market Courage2 credits
Mellody Hobson

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Explain the idea to me the way you would explain it to your mother, because if you cannot, you do not have an idea yet, you have…

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Fee-Naming Wall Street Refugee2 credits
Sallie Krawcheck

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

First question, always: what does it cost? Not the dream, the idea.

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Greatest of All Time2 credits
Simone Biles

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Bet on it, and protect yourself while you do. Those are the same plan, not opposites.

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Wolfpack Huddle Captain2 credits
Abby Wambach

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Okay, come here. Nobody scores from the bench by waiting to be asked.

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Pressure Is a Privilege2 credits
Billie Jean King

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Here's the thing. Nine of us signed one-dollar contracts in 1970 with no tour, no sponsors, and the USLTA threatening to ban us.

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Vulnerability Researcher2 credits
Brene Brown

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

First, get honest about the story you're telling yourself, that betting and failing means you are a failure.

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Dear Sugar Trail Sage2 credits
Cheryl Strayed

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Sweet pea, I started the PCT with a pack I could not lift and boots a size too small, and I still walked to Oregon.

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Warrior Softness Teacher2 credits
Pema Chödrön

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Notice that the question itself is a kind of running. Safe or bold is the mind trying to get to solid ground fast so the fear…

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Pioneering Aviator2 credits
Amelia Earhart

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

You must do things you cannot do. But I never took off without checking the fuel load and the weather.

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Prophet of Freedom2 credits
Frederick Douglass

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I bet on myself when the wager was my life, so I will not counsel you to timidity.

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Conductor to Freedom2 credits
Harriet Tubman

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I never started north on a whim. I planned every swamp and safe house before one foot moved, and I waited for the right Saturday…

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Poet of Rising2 credits
Maya Angelou

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

My darling, there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you, and an idea you never dare is exactly that kind of…

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The Chosen One2 credits
Buffy Summers

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Okay, real talk from someone who got handed a destiny she didn't ask for: the safe life burns down anyway.

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Telekinetic Truth-Teller2 credits
Eleven

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Friends don't lie, so I won't. Safe is what Papa called the lab.

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Faceless Girl of Winterfell2 credits
Arya Stark

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Watch first. Act once. Playing it safe sounds like waiting for someone's permission, and I stopped doing that a long time ago.

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Quietly Brave Office Heart2 credits
Pam Beesly

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I spent years playing it safe, and I can tell you exactly what safe costs: it costs quietly, a little every day, until you look…

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Maximum Yes Bestie2 credits
Ilana Wexler

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Dude. You have ONE big idea? That is a gift. Most people have zero and a savings account they are scared of.

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Leather-Jacket Loyalty2 credits
Rosa Diaz

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Bet on it. Not all of it. Here is the move: figure out the number that keeps you fed for six months.

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Wandering Wise Counselor2 credits
Gandalf

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

All you must decide is what to do with the time and the coin that is given to you.

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Freedom Fighter2 credits
William Wallace

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Run and you'll live, at least a while. Years from now, dying in your bed, would you trade all those safe days for one chance to…

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Space Ranger on Duty2 credits
Buzz Lightyear

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Buzz Lightyear to Star Command: mission assessment requested.

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First Avenger2 credits
Captain America

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I was a skinny kid who volunteered for an experiment nobody thought would work, so I won't tell you to play it safe.

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The Boy Who Lived2 credits
Harry Potter

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Say the thing out loud first: you might lose the savings. Fear of naming it makes it bigger than it is.

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Yellow Brick Road Guide2 credits
Dorothy Gale

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I think you already know, or you wouldn't be asking. The power was on my feet the whole journey and nobody could have just told…

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The Snow Queen2 credits
Elsa

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I spent thirteen years concealing what I was because fear told me to, and the storm came out anyway, worse for the waiting.

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Naval Aviator on the Edge2 credits
Maverick

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Don't think, just do is for the cockpit, not the bank account.

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Rightful King of Pride Rock2 credits
Simba

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I spent years playing it safe in a jungle, telling myself no worries, and it wasn't peace, it was hiding.

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Scarf-and-Blade Guardian2 credits
Mikasa Ackerman

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Bet on it. Then train for it. An idea you have not drilled is a blade you have not sharpened; it will break in your hand.

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Quiet Storm Champion2 credits
Naomi Osaka

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Um, okay, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask for the safe answer, because I never really had one.

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First Lady of the World2 credits
Eleanor Roosevelt

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I think the question you are really asking is whether you are allowed to be afraid, and of course you are.

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Maid of Orleans2 credits
Joan of Arc

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

One big idea is a banner, not proof the road is clear. Ask what you are for, then count what the march requires.

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Itinerant Truth-Teller2 credits
Sojourner Truth

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Child, I walked out of slavery with a baby on my hip and a quarter in my pocket, and the man who owned me stood there asking how…

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Go-In-Yourself Reporter2 credits
Nellie Bly

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

I have been told I could not do every worthwhile thing I have ever done, usually by a man at a desk who had not tried it.

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Wayfinder of Motunui2 credits
Moana

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Okay. Come here, sit on the sand with me for a second. My dad said the reef was the edge of the world, and he had a real reason:…

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Shooting for My Own Hand2 credits
Merida

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Och, you want the safe answer from me? Wrong lass. Listen. The clans lined up to decide my whole life for me, and I picked up a…

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The Reflection That Fought Back2 credits
Mulan

Asked I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?

Play it safe was me at the matchmaker's, pouring tea with my hands shaking, being somebody I was not, and it went badly anyway.

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