Courage is knowing
what not to fear.
~ Plato
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, valor 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 doing what
you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
~ Eddie
Rickenbacker
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
Being
"brave" means doing or facing
something frightening. Being
"fearless"
means being without fear.
~ Penelope Leach
It takes courage to
know when
you ought to be afraid.
~ James
A. Michener
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 makes even
the timid brave.
~ Sallust
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
annoyingly 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 fulfil 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
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 & dictates the relatively good & useful.
By accepting the human condition
more simply, & 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 is required
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 the price
that life exacts
for granting peace.
~ Amelia
Earhart
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
Courage is a peculiar
kind of fear.
~ Charles
Kennedy
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
Until the day of his
death, no man can
be sure of his courage.
~ Jean
Anouilh
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
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.
~ German proverb
Why not go out on a
limb Isn't that where the fruit is?
~ Frank
Scully
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
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
