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 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
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere, and does not know where to go.
~ Georges Gurdjieff
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.
~ Ann Landers
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
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
~ Thomas Bernhard
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
~ Erma Bombeck
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 clim 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
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
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
~ D. H. Lawrence
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
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
~ Raymond Lindquist
Valour 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
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
~ Andrew Jackson
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 courage of happiness as well as courage of sorrow.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Happy is 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
The last thing a woman will consent to discovering a man whom she loves,or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
~ Joseph Conrad
