Courage
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- A coward dies many times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once.
- I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.
- William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII
- All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
- All serious daring starts from within.
- An elephant pierced by arrows stands unperturbed. The courageous relent not in adversities.
- And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Boasting at home is not valor; parade is not battle; when war comes the valiant will be known.
- Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
- Courage is a poison, forever potent and always inflicting those who wish to carry it.
- Courage is being scared to death— and saddling up anyway.
- Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.
- Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
- Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
- Courage is not the towering oak / That sees storms come and go, / It is the fragile blossom / That opens in the snow.
- Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
- Courage is the price life exacts for peace.
- Cowardice. . . is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
- Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads.
- Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
- Ray Bradbury, Brown Daily Herald (March 24, 1995)
- Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
- Fear imprisons; faith liberates; fear paralyzes; faith empowers; fear disheartens; faith encourages; fear sickens; faith heals; fear makes useless; faith makes serviceable.
- Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
- Few things are more attractive than courage, cheerfulness and optimism. But they take on an extra dimension when you realize that they are not a lucky assembly of character traits, but the result of an act of will—a deliberate attempt to tackle an unkind destiny with strength of purpose and good humor.
- Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
- Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the 'courage of their convictions.'
- God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
- Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
- I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage. What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.
- I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
- If we could be heroes, if just for one day.
- If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
- If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you.
- In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
- It is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
- It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
- It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
- It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
- Harper Lee in "To kill a Mockingbird"
- Last, but by no means least, courage— moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle— the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
- Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.
- Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them.
- No one reaches a high position without daring.
- Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.
- One man with courage makes a majority.
- One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.
- Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
- Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?
- So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.
- Strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose.
- The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
- The basest of all things is to be afraid.
- The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.
- The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear—fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
- The world has no room for cowards.
- There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
- To have courage for whatever comes in life— everything lies in that.
- To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.
- Confucius (K'ung-Fu-tzu)
- What worries you, masters you.
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- What great thing would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
- Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
- Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
- When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
- Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- I cannot advise that we remain as we are.
- Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.
- The important thing when you are going to do something brave is to have someone on hand to witness it.
- Courage mounteth with occasion.
- Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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