Winston Churchill? William Arthur Ward? Googey Bince? Carl Hermann Voss? George W. Norris? Anonymous?

Question for Quote Investigator: It takes courage to stand up and speak, but it also takes courage to sit down and listen. This notion has been attributed to U.K statesman Winston Churchill, but I have never seen a solid citation, and I am skeptical. Would you please help me to trace this saying.
Reply from Quote Investigator: The earliest match found by QI appeared in 1964 within “Quote: The Weekly Digest”. The statement was credited to U.S. motivational author William Arthur Ward who crafted many affirmational sayings. Boldface added to excerpts by QI:1
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; it is also what it takes, on occasion, to sit down and listen.
—William A. Ward, Texas Wesleyan College, Meadowbrook (Tex) Herald, 7-30-64.
William Arthur Ward is the most likely creator of this saying.
Winston Churchill died in 1965. He received credit for the saying by 1976, but the attribution was unsupported. Also, the website of the International Churchill Society lists an instance and indicates that it is not an authentic quotation from the statesman:2
Courage
‘Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.’
This fake quote is very often attributed to Churchill but appears nowhere in the Churchill canon.
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