“ Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“ What a new face courage puts on everything!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“ Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“ A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“ The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“ Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
~ Winston Churchill”
“ This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
~ Winston Churchill”
“ Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~ Winston Churchill”
“ The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
~ William Jennings Bryan”
“ An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
~ Walter Savage Landor”
“ Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
~ Walter Elliott”
“ Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
~ Vittorio Alfieri”
“ The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
~ Thucydides”
“ Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
~ St Augustine”
“ Never despair, keep pushing on!
~ Sir Thomas Lipton”
“ Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
~ Samuel Johnson”
“ God Almighty hates a quitter.
~ Samuel Fessenden”
“ Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson”
“ Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.
~ Robert Greene”
“ The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll”
“ The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
~ Robert Cushing”
“ Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
~ Robert Cody”
“ One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better, Sleep to wake.
~ Robert Browning”
“ The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
~ Robert Blair”
“ The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~ Ralph W Sockman”
“ The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
~ R G Ingersoll”
“ Fortune helps the brave.
~ Publius Terentius Afer”
“ Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.
~ Peter McWilliams”
“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
~ Paul Richter”
“ It takes vision and courage to create-it takes faith and courage to prove.
~ Owen D Young”
“ It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.
~ Owen D Young”
“ It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.
~ Orson Scott Card”
“ I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
~ Orel Herhiser”
“ Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
~ Omar Bradley”
“ Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
~ Oliver J Hart”
“ Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
~ Oliver J Hart”
“ Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
~ Nicholas Boileau”
“ Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
~ Napoleon I”
“ He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
~ Muhammad Ali”
“ Loyalty binds me.
~ Motto”
“ You are never a loser until you quit trying.
~ Mike Ditka”
“ He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
~ Miguel de Cervantes”
“ The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
~ Mignon McLaughlin”
“ Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
~ Michael Pritchard”
“ 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”
“ Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
~ Mary Byrant”
“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain”
“ It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.
~ Mark Twain”
“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
~ Mark Twain”
“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain”
“ It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~ Mark Twain”
“ Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero”
“ A man of courage is also full of faith.
~ Marcus T Cicero”
“ I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
~ Lyndon Baines Johnson”
“ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca”
“ I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice; 'only today I happen to have a headache.'
~ Lewis Carroll”
“ If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
~ Lawana Blackwell”
“ Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.
~ La Rochefoucauld”
“ As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
~ Joseph Conrad”
“ Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
~ Joseph Chamberlain”
“ We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.
~ Joseph Chamberlain”
“ Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
~ Joseph Addison”
“ Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
~ Joseph Addison”
“ The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.
~ Joseph Addison”
“ The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
~ Joseph Addison”
“ I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
~ Joseph Addison”
“ Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne”
“ Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
~ John Quincy Adams”
“ It's is better to of lived and died, than have never lived and tried.
~ John L Fitzell”
“ Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
~ John Dryden”
“ The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
~ Joanna Baillie”
“ You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
~ James J Corbett”
“ You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~ James Allen”
“ If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
~ James A Garfield”
“ You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all
~ J Askenberg”
“ One man with courage makes a majority.
~ Horatius Flaccus”
“ The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
~ Horatius Flaccus”
“ O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.
~ Homer”
“ Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
~ Herodotus”
“ Write on your doors the saying wise and old, 'Be bold! be bold!' and everywhere--'Be bold; Be not too bold!' Yet better the excess That the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
“ We are all the President's men.
~ Henry Kissinger”
“ Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).
~ Helen Blavatsky”
“ All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe”
“ I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. 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”
“ They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
~ Gregory Corso”
“ Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
~ Gilbert K Chesterton”
“ The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
~ G K Chesterton”
“ Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
~ G K Chesterton”
“ There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
~ Freda Adler”
“ It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
~ Francesco Petrarch”
“ This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
~ Euripides”
“ A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
~ Euripides”
“ Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway”
“ Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.
~ Erma Bombeck”
“ Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
~ English Proverb”
“ It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~ Edward Estlin Cummings”
“ Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker”
“ Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.
~ Earl Wilson”
“ I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
~ E M Forster”
“ Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Dorothy Bernard”
“ Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
~ Dorothea Brande”
“ One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.
~ Don Quixote”
“ Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
~ Dante Alighieri”
“ The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
~ D A Battista”
“ If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
~ Curly Howard”
“ The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
~ Corra Harris”
“ To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. -Confucius Analects.
~ Confucius Analects”
“ Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
~ Clare Booth Luce”
“ Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
~ Christine Comaford”
“ Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee”
“ I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
~ Charlie Brown”
“ Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
~ Charles Caleb Colton”
“ 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.
~ Charles Caleb Colton”
“ No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
~ Channing Pollock”
“ Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether 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”
“ There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
~ Brian Hays”
“ My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
~ Bjorn Borg”
“ For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again.
~ Bible”
“ But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.
~ Bible”
“ In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
~ Bible”
“ But straightway Jesus spake upto them saying, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
~ Bible”
“ Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
~ Bible”
“ In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
~ Anonymous”
“ There's no substitute for guts.
~ Bear Bryant”
“ We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
~ Barbara De Angelis”
“ You can't test courage cautiously.
~ Anne Dillard”
“ One man with courage makes a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson”
“ Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
~ Anais Nin”
“ courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
~ Amelia Earhart”
“ True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason
~ Alfred North Whitehead”
“ It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
~ Aesop”
“ Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
~ Adam Michnik”
“ 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.
~ Aaron Hill”
“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
~ Twain, Mark”
“ The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
~ Blavatsky, H. P.”
“ The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~ Sockman, Ralph W.”
“ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
~ Seneca, Lucius Annaeus”
“ Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether 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.
~ Sandburg, Carl”
“ As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
~ Akhenaton”
“ Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~ Roosevelt, Theodore”
“ No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
~ Pollock, Channing”
“ True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
~ Petit-Senn, John”
“ It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
~ Aesop”
“ I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
~ Paine, Thomas”
“ Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
~ Ovid”
“ Fortune and love favor the brave.
~ Ovid”
“ Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
~ Napolean”
“ 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.
~ MacArthur, Douglas”
“ Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
~ La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois”
“ A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insis tupon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten.
~ Kennedy, John F.”
“ The brave man is not he who feels nofear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
~ Baillie, Joanna”
“ Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
~ Johnson, Samuel”
“ I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
~ Johnson, Lyndon Baines”
“ One man with courage makes a majority.
~ Jackson, Andrew”
“ The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
~ Ingersoll, Robert Green”
“ It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
~ Ibarruri, Dolores”
“ Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Hemingway, Ernest”
“ Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
~ Hart, Oliver J.”
“ Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
~ Addison, Joseph”
“ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle”
“ This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
~ Euripides”
“ Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
~ English Proverb”
“ Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
~ Emerson, Ralph Waldo”
“ What a new face courage puts on everything!
~ Emerson, Ralph Waldo”
“ Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
~ Emerson, Ralph Waldo”
“ Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
~ Deuteronomy”
“ Every man of courage is a man of his word.
~ Corneille, Pierre”
“ You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~ Allen, James L.”
“ This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
~ Churchill, Winston”
“ Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
~ Chesterton, G.K.”
“ Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
~ Chesterton, G.K.”
“ I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.'
~ Carroll, Lewis”
“ It takes vision and courage to create-it takes faith and courage to prove.
~ Young, Owen D.”