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My advice to you  if you should ever be in a hold up  is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
— O. Henry
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
— John Ciardi
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time  and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
— Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
— Gail Sheehy
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
— Anais Nin
No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)
— Motto of Scotland
Neither have they hearts to stay  Nor wit enough to run away.
— Samuel Butler
Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
— Anonymous
Until the day of his death  no man can be sure of his courage.
— Jean Anouilh
There is no such thing as bravery  only degrees of fear.
— John Wainwright
"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life.
— Mason Cooley
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard  but by attacking  and getting well hammered yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
— Martin Luther
Many become brave when brought to bay.
— Norwegian proverb
O God  give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed  courage to change what should be changed  and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue  courage is only the second virtue.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
— George S. Patton
We could be cowards  if we had courage enough.
— Thomas Fuller
Showing up is eighty percent of life.
— Woody Allen
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
— Tennessee Williams
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage  both as a whole and separately  in each country  in each government  in each political party  and  of course  in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite  causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
One man with courage makes a majority.
— Andrew Jackson
If one is forever cautious  can one remain a human being?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
— Satchel Paige
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm  'O God  you will save me if you wish  but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'
— Michel de Montaigne
Fight on  my merry men all  I'm a little wounded  but I am not slain  I will lay me down for to bleed a while  Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
— John Dryden
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
— G. K. Chesterton
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves  or on whom she simply depends  is want of courage.
— Joseph Conrad
Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
— Victoria, Queen of England
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms  though arms we need  not as a call to battle  though embattled we are  but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle  year in and year out  'rejoicing in hope  patient in tribulation'  a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny  poverty  disease and war itself.
— John F. Kennedy
To be brave one short instant is no easy matter  it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
— Comtesse Diane
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently  but to live manfully.
— Thomas Carlyle
Have the courage to act instead of react.
— Earlene Larson Jenks
Courage! I have shown it for years  think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
— Marie Antoinette
Necessity does the work of courage.
— George Eliot
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected  even when it is associated with vice.
— Samuel Johnson
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment  but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences  in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.
— John F. Kennedy
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves  and unless one travels to completely new territories  one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.
— Jean Dubuffet
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
— Homer
Courage is resistance to fear  mastery of fear  not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
— Andri Gide
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity  for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else  and run away even before he comes near them  the fly lights upon his very nose.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Cervantes
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
— G. C. Lichtenberg
As to moral courage  I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage  that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion  and which  in spite of the most unforeseen events  leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The guts carry the feet  not the feet the guts.
— Cervantes
Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage - fear that has said its prayers.
— Dorothy Bernard
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
— Winston Churchill
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
— Seneca
(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger  and a mental willingness to endure it.
— William T. Sherman
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point  which means at the point of highest reality.
— C. S. Lewis
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
— E. H. Chapin
Whether it be to failure or success  the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can  with fortitude in any event.
— Bliss Carman
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
— Lucille Ball
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
— Winston Churchill
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
— Mary Daly
Without courage  all other virtues lose their meaning.
— Winston Churchill
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
— Winston Churchill
Courage is the most important of all virtues  because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
— Maya Angelou
Courage is not simply one of the virtues  but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
— C. S. Lewis
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
— Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow  to move ahead.
— Rollo May
Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage  you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
— Samuel Johnson
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment  but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences  in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
— John F. Kennedy
Nothing but courage can guide life.
— Vauvenargues
Wealth lost-something lost  Honor lost-much lost  Courage lost-all lost.
— Old German proverb
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
— Frank Scully
In politics  guts is all.
— Barbara Castle
In difficult situations  when hope seems feeble  the boldest plans are safest.
— Livy
Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh  for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead  for she is wont to favor the bold.
— Baltasar Gracian
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
— Ruby Dee
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
— Herodotus
In times of stress  be bold and valiant.
— Horace
The brave venture anything.
— Anonymous
It is the bold man who every time does best  at home or abroad.
— Homer
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields  or if it beats you sometimes  dare it again  and it will succumb.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard  but by attacking  and getting well-hammered yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Fortune helps the brave.
— Virgil
Audacity augments courage  hesitation  fear.
— Publilius Syrus
God helps the brave.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
Fortune befriends the bold.
— John Dryden
Fortune and love favor the brave.
— Ovid
Audacity has made kings.
— Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion
With audacity one can undertake anything.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
— Preston Bradley
He who loses wealth loses much  he who loses a friend loses more  but he who loses his courage loses all.
— Miguel de Cervantes
True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
— Jean Anouilh
Tender-handed stroke a nettle  and it stings you for your pains  Grasp it like a man of mettle  and it soft as silk remains.
— Thomas Fuller
Be content to stand in the light  and let the shadow fall where it will.
— Mary W. Stewart
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly  as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country  to meet many a joy  to find many a comrade  to win and lose many a battle.
— Annie Besant
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities  or their evasion  it is a business of meeting obligations  or avoiding them.
— Ben Ames Williams
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest  success comes only later.
— Confucius
There were always in me  two women at least  one woman desperate and bewildered  who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene  as upon a stage  conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses  helplessness  despair  and present to the world only a smile  an eagerness  curiosity  enthusiasm  interest.
— Anais Nin
Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!
— Joseph Conrad
If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do  he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly  and [if] there is no situation to face  it falls away of its own weight.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
— Plutarch
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
— Thomas Fuller
He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
— Thomas Fuller
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
— Dag Hammarskjold
There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
— Henry Miller
Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
— John Dewey
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
— Joseph Farrell
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
— William J. Lock
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties  and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
— William J. H. Boetcker
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them  but confront them.
— William F. Halsey
The best way out of a problem is through it.
— Anonymous
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
— M. Scott Peck
The truth will set you free  but first it will make you miserable.
— James A. Garfield
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
— Stanislaus
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see  not perhaps the way out  but the way in.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
As a rule  what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
— Julius Caesar
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
— Frederic Chopin
Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away.
— William L. Sullivan
Fools  through false shame  conceal their open wounds.
— Horace
Let us not look back in anger  nor forward in fear  but around us in awareness.
— James Thurber
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
— James A. Michener
However mean your life is  meet it and live it  do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
— Henry David Thoreau
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you suppress grief too much  it can well redouble.
— Moliere
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
— Anonymous
Should I  after tea and cakes and ices  have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
— T. S. Eliot
Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.
— Anonymous
None are so blind as those who will not see.
— Anonymous
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Soldiers  strike the foe in the face!
— Florus
Get in front of the ball  you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for  young man.
— John McGraw
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Courage is a quietness  not martial music made Born of facing up to life  even when afraid.
— Emily Sargent Councilman
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
— D. H. Lawrence
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
— Katherine Mansfield
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is courage  courage  courage  that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
— Horace
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes  but is a reward in itself.
— Simone de Beauvoir
No blame should attach to telling the truth.
— Anita Brookner
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
— Merry Browne
Truth is always exciting. Speak it  then  life is dull without it.
— Pearl S. Buck
You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.
— Suzette Haden Elgin
You're only as sick as your secrets.
— Anonymous
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
— Benjamin Lipson
It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.
— Marion Woodman
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
— Anonymous
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere  and does not know where to go.
— Georges Gurdjieff
If the word frankly or sincerely is not uttered in the first ten minutes-or let us speak openly-then you are not in the presence of a genuine businessman  and he will certainly go bankrupt.
— Francoise Mallet-Joris
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
— Johann von Goethe
If I ever said in grief or pride  I tired of honest things  I lied.
— Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Truth  that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
— Anne Shannon Monroe
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
— Arthur Guiterman
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
— Ellis Peters
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie  it is often better to stick to the truth.
— Angela Thirkell
An excuse is a lie guarded.
— Jonathan Swift
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty  Beauty the outward form of Truth.
— Grace Aguilar
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
— Hannah Arendt
There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth  and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
— Ti-Grace Atkinson
The real gift of love is self disclosure.
— John Powell
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them  more strength to relate to people than to dominate them  more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit  not in muscles and an immature mind.
— Alex Karras
I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
— Leon Blum
Introversion  at least if extreme  is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
— Pearl S. Buck
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage  but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes  but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Greatness  in the last analysis  is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
— James Harvey Robinson
The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe  the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art.
— Joseph H. Odell
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility  with no history to guide them  and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
— Gloria Steinem
Valour is nobleness of the mind.
— Anonymous
Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger  misfortune  fear  injustice  while continuing to affirm inwardly that life  with all its sorrows  is good  that everything is meaningful  even if in a sense beyond our understanding  and that there is always tomorrow.
— Dorothy Thompson
This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad  but those who taste  in living awareness  every drop of the good.
— Victoria Lincoln
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right  even though I think it is hopeless.
— Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Physical courage  which despises all danger  will make a man brave in one way  and moral courage  which despises all opinion  will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp  the latter for the council  but to constitute a great man  both are necessary.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Valor is stability  not of legs and arms  but of courage and the soul.
— Michel de Montaigne
One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run  if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointment  you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.
— Colonel John S. Roosman
Whatever course you decide upon  there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
— Julian Weber Gordon
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness  not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation  but simply because these are what one believes.
— Rollo May
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak  courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
— Anonymous
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
— Plautus
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
— Barbara De Angelis
This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
— Euripides
Courage  in the final analysis  is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
— Dr. Kurt Goldstein
Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger  and a mental willingness to endure it.
— General William T. Sherman
To have courage for whatever comes in life-everything lies in that.
— Teresa of Avila
To accept whatever comes  regardless of the consequences  is to be unafraid.
— John Cage
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
— Ralph W. Sockman
Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.
— Winifred Gordon
We must have the courage to be happy.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
— Ovid
All happiness depends on courage and work.
— Honore de Balzac
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We must have courage to bet on our ideas  on the calculated risk  and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
— Maxwell Maltz
Faint heart never won fair lady.
— Miguel de Cervantes
None but the brave deserve the fair.
— John Dryden
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The weapon of the brave is in his heart.
— Anonymous
The guts carry the feet  not the feet the guts.
— Miguel de Cervantes
I am not afraid of a fight  I have to do my duty  come what may.
— Therese of Lisieux
War is fear cloaked in courage.
— General William Westmoreland
A bold heart is half the battle.
— Anonymous
Courage in danger is half the battle.
— Plautus
A man of courage never wants weapons.
— Anonymous
A brave arm makes a short sword long.
— Anonymous
Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity  or  if it is insisted upon by a commander  irresponsibility.
— Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
There is  in addition to a courage with which men die  a courage by which men must live.
— John F. Kennedy
Where life is more terrible than death  it is the truest valor to dare to live.
— Sir Thomas Browne
Often the test of courage is not to die  but to live.
— Conte Vittorio Alfieri
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.
— Giacomo Leopardi
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
— General Douglas MacArthur
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
— Robert Cody
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times  you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
— George Horace Lorimer
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
— Bernadette Devlin
To persevere  trusting in what hopes he has  is courage. The coward despairs.
— Euripides
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
— Owen D. Young
Whatever you do  you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who dares nothing  need hope for nothing.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
Have the courage of your desire.
— George R. Gissing
To see what is right  and not do it  is want of courage.
— Confucius
No great thing conies to any man unless he has courage.
— Cardinal James Gibbons
Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
— German proverb
Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak  until the finish line is crossed.
— Stuart Walker
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
— Herbert Kaufman
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman  before which difficulties disappear  and obstacles vanish into air.
— John Quincy Adams
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues  but... they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
— Cookie Lavagetto
Where there is a brave man  in the thickest of the fight  there is the post of honor.
— Henry David Thoreau
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
— James Lane Allen
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
— Alonzo Newton Benn
One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
— James A. Worsham
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
— Erica Jong
The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.
— Robert J. McCracken
Talent is helpful in writing  but guts are absolutely necessary.
— Jessamyn West
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
— Baltasar Gracian
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
— Sir James M. Barrie
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
— Joanna Field
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency  and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
— Jeremy Collier
It is brave to be involved.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
— B. C. Forbes
Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.
— Thomas A. Edison
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
— Horace
Nothing ventured  nothing gained.
— Anonymous
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
— Charles M. Schwab
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined  courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer  to venture down new paths of endeavor.
— Ralph J. Bunche
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
— Alexander Smith
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try  and perhaps failing.
— Vladimir Zworykin
What you can do  or dream you can do  begin it  boldness has genius  power and magic in it.
— Johann von Goethe
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do  and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
— Richard L. Evans
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
— Viscount Cecil
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.
— Randolph Bourne
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
— Sir Walter Scott
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make  the better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
— Margaret Truman
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
When you're my size in the pros  fear is a sign that you're not stupid.
— Jerry Levias
Keep your fears to yourself  but share your courage with others.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage leads starward  fear toward death.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
— Charles Kennedy
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
— General George S. Patton
Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.
— Stuart Walker
Courage is resistance to fear  mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
— David Ben-Gurion
Courage is the right disposition toward fear.
— Anonymous
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
— Arthur Koestler
Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
A coward turns away  but a brave man's choice is danger.
— Euripides
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
— Michel de Montaigne
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
— Cyril Connolly
To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.
— Rollo May
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself  afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world  afraid to face himself.
— Roscoe Snowden
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble  and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
— William Barclay
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
— Confucius
Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.
— J. B. Gambrell
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is  perhaps  cowardice.
— Charles Lamb
Men perish by the sword  cowards by disease.
— Phillippus
Between cowardice and despair  valour is gendered.
— John Donne
If you knew how cowardly your enemy is  you would slap him.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
— George Eliot
The coward despairs.
— Euripides
Cowardice  as distinguished from panic  is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
— Ernest Hemingway
The only cowards are sinners  fighting the fight is all.
— John G. Neihardt
All men would be cowards if they durst.
— John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.
— John Wayne
You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid  or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid  he's stupid.
— Joe Torre
To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.
— Anonymous
Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.
— Penelope Leach
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant  but inside I was always quaking.
— Katharine Hepburn
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become  the better your chances of achieving success.
— Lois Korey
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag  but no one seemed to think anything about it  apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.
— Jane Wagner
I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail.
— Rona Barrett
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
— Franklin P. Jones
Necessity does the work of courage.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first  a little  and badly. Then  bit by bit  more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
— Audre Lorde
When it comes to the pinch  human beings are heroic.
— George Orwell
Many become brave when brought to bag.
— Norwegian proverb
Courage mounteth with occasion.
— William Shakespeare
When you have no choice  mobilize the spirit of courage.
— Jewish proverb
Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
— A. G. Sertillanges
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
— Alice Walker
Courage is like love  it must have hope for nourishment.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
I would often be a coward  but for the shame of it.
— Ralph Connor
At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
— Edwin H. Chapin
We would be cowards  if we had courage enough.
— Thomas Fuller
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
— Thomas Fuller
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope  in the one case we have nothing to lose  in the other everything to gain.
— Diane de Poitiers
Despair gives courage to a coward.
— Anonymous
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
— Henry S. Haskins
I'm not afraid of too many things  and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
— Horace Smith
How  then  find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness  spontaneity  instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply  and candidly  by dreading troubles less  calculating less  hoping more.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.
— Jerome P. Fleishman
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
— Joseph Addison
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
— Vauvenargues
Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle  it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
— Frances Rodman
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
— David Seabury
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
— G. K. Chesterton
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
— General George S. Patton
Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom  but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
— Rollo May
Courage does not consist in calculation  but in fighting against chances.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
Courage is its own reward.
— Plautus
Courage is a kind of salvation.
— Plato
Courage is grace under pressure.
— Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
— Sir James M. Barrie
Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.
— Eugene E. Brussell
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
— G. K. Chesterton
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
— Cicero
Courage is generosity of the highest order  for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
— Nigel Dennis
Courage is fire  and bullying is smoke.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
— Francois de Fenelon
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
— Samuel Johnson
Courage is the footstool of the Virtues  upon which they stand.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.
— Douglas Malloch
Courage is what preserves our liberty  safety  life  and our homes and parents  our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
— Plautus
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract  but not for the concrete.
— Helen Keller
Every man has his own courage  and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears  who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery  we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
If you are brave too often  people will come to expect it of you.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
— Carl Sandburg
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
— Pierre Corneille
Courage can't see around corners  but goes around them anyway.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Freedom is not for the timid.
— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
— Plautus
In true courage there is always an element of choice  of an ethical choice  and of anguish  and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it  a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
— Brenda Ueland
But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
— William Shakespeare
Courage is always the surest wisdom.
— Wilfred Grenfell
Courage is very important. Like a muscle  it is strengthened by use.
— Ruth Gordon
There are some women who seem to be born without fear  just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women  maybe out of astonishment.
— Margaret Atwood
On many of the great issues of our time  men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
— William Benton
Catch courage.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
If you are scared to go to the brink  you are lost.
— John Foster Dulles
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
— Erica Jong
Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
— Terence
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
— H. G. Bohn
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
— Victor Hugo
The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
— Anonymous
Act  and God will act.
— Joan of Arc
So when the crisis is upon you  remember that God  like a trainer of wrestlers  has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.
— Epictetus
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
— Dorothea Brande
What God expects us to attempt  He also enables us to achieve.
— Stephen Olford
God gave burdens  also shoulders.
— Yiddish proverb
With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides  He provides.
— Frank N. D. Buchman
The Bible tells us that a sparrow does not fall without God's notice. I know he will help us meet our responsibilities through his guidance.
— Michael Cardone
Leap  and the net will appear.
— Julie Cameron
Cowards falter  but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
— Queen Elizabeth I
God gives us always strength enough  and sense enough  for everything He wants us to do.
— John Ruskin
Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
In this unbelievable universe in which we live  there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines  reaching into infinity  meet somewhere yonder.
— Pearl S. Buck
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel  we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do  to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
— Liz Carpenter
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Everyone will be taxed according to his means.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
— Judith M. Knowlton
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
— Talmud
Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.
— Edith Ronald Mirrielees
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
— Louise Nevelson
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law  as of all benign laws  is fear.
— Elizabeth Goudge
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
However confused the scene of our life appears  however torn we may be who now do face that scene  it can be faced  and we can go on to be whole.
— Muriel Rukeyser
A change of heart is the essence of all other change  and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
— Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
— George. C. Scott
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
— William Faulkner
If you have enough fantasies  you're ready  in the event that something happens.
— Sheila Ballantyne
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions  just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
— Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
We all carry it within us: supreme strength  the fullness of wisdom  unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted  and cannot be destroyed.
— Huston Smith
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.
— Thomas J. Watson
The spirit of man is an inward flame  a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
— Margot Asquith
We have what we seek. It is there all the time  and if we give it time  it will make itself known to us.
— Thomas Merton
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without  but was within him all the time.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we know what we want to prove  we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
— Pearl S. Buck
Nature reacts not only to physical disease  but also to moral weakness  when the danger increases  she gives us greater courage.
— Johann von Goethe
rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Trouble  like the hill ahead  straightens out when you advance upon it.
— Marcelene Cox
In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
— Heart Warrior Chosa
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter  we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
— William Hazlitt
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
— Winston Churchill
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
— Wendell Phillips
The moment one definitely commits oneself  then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision  raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance  which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
— W. H. Murray
In forty hours I shall be in battle  with little information  and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that  with God's help  I shall make them  and make them right.
— General George S. Patton
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
— Vittorio Conte Alfieri
A man of courage is also full of faith.
— Cicero
When moral courage feels that it is in the right  there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
— Leigh Hunt
Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
— Ovid
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves  but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
— Jean Paul Richter
Hail  Caesar  those who are about to die salute thee.
— Suetonius
The small courtesies sweeten life  the greater ennoble it.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
A moral  sensible  and well-bred man Will not affront me  and no other can.
— William Cowper
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain  Can never rise to fight again.
— Oliver Goldsmith
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
— Napoleon
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
All men would be cowards if they durst.
— Earl of Rochester
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
— Ambrose Bierce
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
— Lord Byron
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!
— Thomas Campbell
In a free country there is much clamor  with little suffering  in a despotic state there is little complaint  with much grievance.
— Lazare Carnot
For what avail the plough or sail  Or land  or life  if freedom fail?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ay  call it holy ground  The soil where first they trod  They have left unstained  what there they found  -  Freedom to worship God.
— Felicia D. Hemans
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea  With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me  As He died to make men holy  let us die to make men free  While God is marching on.
— Julia Ward Howe
I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
— Thomas Jefferson
And ye shall know the truth  and the truth shall make you free.
— Bible
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
... That this nation  under God  shall have a new birth of freedom.
— Abraham Lincoln