The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Courage is the best slayer courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
~ Thomas Carlyle
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~ Anais Nin
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
~ H. G. Bohn
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
A
great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what
we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his
energies upon that.
~ Joseph Rickaby
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
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
~ Georges Jacques Danton
With audacity one can undertake anything.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
~ Preston Bradley
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
~ C. S. Lewis
In politics, guts, is all.
~ Barbara Castle
In difficult situations, when hope seems feeble, the boldest plans are safest.
~ Livy
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
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
~ Homer
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
~ Horace
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
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
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
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
~ Victor Hugo
Act and God will act.
~ Joan of Arc
Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can’t practice any other virtue with consistency.
~ Maya Angelou
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
Fortune helps the brave.
~ Virgil
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
~ Publilius Syrus
Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
God helps the brave.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
Fortune befriends the bold.
~ John Dryden
Fortune and love favor the brave.
~ Ovid
Fortune favors the audacious.
~ Erasmus
Audacity has made kings.
~ Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
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
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
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
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
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 mens 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
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
~ T. S. Eliot
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
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
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
One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
~ James A. Worsham
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken livered coward if you hesitate.
~ B. C. Forbes
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
~ Vincent van Gogh
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
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
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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 to 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
Valor 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 star ward, fear toward death.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fate loves the fearless.
~ James Russell Lowell
There is no such thing as bravery, only degrees of fear.
~ John Wainwright
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
~ Charles Kennedy
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Dorothy Bernard
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
