Quotes about courage
courage stress valiant
In times of stress, be bold and valiant. Horace
courage fool shame
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
courage men purpose
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.
courage adversity blood
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
courage truth book
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths. Herbert Spencer
courage self risk
Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.
courage risk bold-actions
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
courage common virtue
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. Herman Melville
courage yield mustache
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.
courage heart despair
He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.
courage fighting despair
Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap. Henry David Thoreau
courage morning three
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
courage important take-a-chance
Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
courage criminals ridiculous
It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
courage lying brave
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism. Jeremy Collier
courage lying moving
The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. Gary Zukav
courage decision world
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision. Franz Grillparzer
courage fear needs
Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.
courage brain groups
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Jet Li
courage greatest-love nothing-to-lose
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose. Jewel
courage steps world
The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions. George Weinberg
courage men sight
Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands. George S. Patton
courage
I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.
courage time fear
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
courage military war
Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
courage veterans-day fear
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
courage loss winning
To win, you have to risk loss. Jean-Claude Killy
courage conquer danger
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. Jean Paul
courage opposites flow
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower
courage war fighting
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. Hillary Clinton
courage selfish men
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness. F. Scott Fitzgerald
courage strong people
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. Ernest Hemingway
courage imagination cowardice
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.