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Courage

The courage which overcomes all fear is born of a healthy yet realistic self-regard that exceeds your own expectations. These achievers looked within themselves, and found there the mental and moral strength to pursue their dreams and prevail despite hardship, pain and mortal danger.
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  • Hank Aaron
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Lynsey Addario
  • Edward Albee
  • Tenley Albright, M.D.
  • Svetlana Alexievich
  • Dame Julie Andrews
  • Maya Angelou
  • Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
  • Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.
  • Sir Roger Bannister
  • John Banville
  • Ehud Barak
  • Lee R. Berger, Ph.D.
  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee
  • Yogi Berra
  • Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Benazir Bhutto
  • Simone Biles
  • Keith L. Black, M.D.
  • Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.
  • David Boies
  • Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.
  • Benjamin C. Bradlee
  • Sergey Brin
  • J. Carter Brown
  • General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., USAF
  • Linda B. Buck, Ph.D.
  • Carol Burnett
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Susan Butcher
  • Sir Michael Caine
  • James Cameron
  • Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Johnny Cash
  • William J. Clinton
  • Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
  • Francis Ford Coppola
  • Ray Dalio
  • Dame Olivia de Havilland
  • Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
  • Michael S. Dell
  • Ron Dennis
  • Joan Didion
  • David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.
  • David Doubilet
  • Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
  • Rita Dove
  • Gustavo Dudamel
  • Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
  • Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.
  • Larry J. Ellison
  • Nora Ephron
  • Julius Erving
  • Tony Fadell
  • Paul Farmer, M.D.
  • Suzanne Farrell
  • Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
  • Sally Field
  • Lord Norman Foster
  • Aretha Franklin
  • Milton Friedman, Ph.D.
  • Carlos Fuentes
  • Athol Fugard
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Ernest J. Gaines
  • William H. Gates III
  • Leymah Gbowee
  • Frank O. Gehry
  • Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.
  • Vince Gill
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Louise Glück
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Dame Jane Goodall
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.
  • Mikhail S. Gorbachev
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.
  • Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.
  • John Grisham
  • Sir John Gurdon
  • Dorothy Hamill
  • Sir Demis Hassabis
  • Lauryn Hill
  • Sir Edmund Hillary
  • Reid Hoffman
  • Khaled Hosseini, M.D.
  • Ron Howard
  • John Hume
  • Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.
  • Daniel K. Inouye
  • Jeremy Irons
  • John Irving
  • Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Sir Peter Jackson
  • Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.
  • Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
  • Philip C. Johnson
  • Chuck Jones
  • James Earl Jones
  • Quincy Jones
  • Beverly Joubert
  • Dereck Joubert
  • Paul Kagame
  • Katalin Karikó, Ph.D.
  • Thomas Keller
  • Anthony M. Kennedy
  • Carole King
  • B.B. King
  • Coretta Scott King
  • Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.
  • Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Wendy Kopp
  • Henry R. Kravis
  • Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Mike Krzyzewski
  • Ray Kurzweil
  • Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.
  • Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
  • Richard E. Leakey
  • Leon Lederman, Ph.D.
  • Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.
  • Congressman John R. Lewis
  • Maya Lin
  • Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • George Lucas
  • Paul B. MacCready, Ph.D.
  • Norman Mailer
  • Peyton Manning
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • John C. Mather, Ph.D.
  • Johnny Mathis
  • Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.
  • Willie Mays
  • Frank McCourt
  • David McCullough
  • Audra McDonald
  • Admiral William H. McRaven, USN
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Reinhold Messner
  • James A. Michener
  • Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.
  • Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.
  • N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.
  • Story Musgrave, M.D.
  • Ralph Nader
  • Peggy Noonan
  • Jessye Norman
  • Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Pierre Omidyar
  • Jimmy Page
  • Larry Page
  • Arnold Palmer
  • Leon Panetta
  • Rosa Parks
  • Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D.
  • Shimon Peres
  • Itzhak Perlman
  • General David H. Petraeus, USA
  • Sidney Poitier
  • General Colin L. Powell, USA
  • Harold Prince
  • Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.
  • Lord Martin Rees
  • Lloyd Richards
  • Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.
  • Cal Ripken Jr.
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Anthony D. Romero
  • James Rosenquist
  • Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
  • Pete Rozelle
  • Bill Russell
  • Albie Sachs
  • Oliver Sacks, M.D.
  • Jonas Salk, M.D.
  • Frederick Sanger, Ph.D.
  • George B. Schaller, Ph.D.
  • Barry Scheck
  • Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.
  • General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA
  • Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D.
  • Neil Sheehan
  • Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Carlos Slim Helú
  • Frederick W. Smith
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Sonia Sotomayor
  • Wole Soyinka
  • Esperanza Spalding
  • Martha Stewart
  • Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN
  • Hilary Swank
  • Amy Tan
  • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
  • Edward Teller, Ph.D.
  • Twyla Tharp
  • Wayne Thiebaud
  • Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN
  • Clyde Tombaugh
  • Charles H. Townes, Ph.D.
  • Lord David Trimble
  • Robert Edward (Ted) Turner
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  • John Updike
  • Gore Vidal
  • Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Lech Walesa
  • Herschel Walker
  • Alice Waters
  • James D. Watson, Ph.D.
  • Andrew Weil, M.D.
  • Leslie H. Wexner
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D.
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Tom Wolfe
  • John Wooden
  • Bob Woodward
  • Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.
  • General Chuck Yeager, USAF
  • Andrew J. Young
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