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 are 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
If you would be Loved, Love, & be Lovable.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Immature Love says I Love you because I need you. Mature Love says I need you because I Love you.
~ Erich Fromm
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Intimate
relationships cannot substitute for a life plan.But to have any meaning
or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
~ Harriet Lerner
It sometimes seems that we have only to Love a thing greatly to get it.
~ Robert Collier
It’s your unlimited power to care & to Love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
~ Anthony Robbins
I’ve decided to stick with Love. Hate is too great great burden to bear.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joy is a net of Love by which U can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with Love.
~ Mother Teresa
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is Love.
~ Zig Ziglar
Many marriages would be better if the husband & wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side.
~ Zig Ziglar
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry & the remaining chapters in prose.
~ Beverly Nichols
May they who Love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.
~ The Bible, Judges 5:31
Men always want to be a woman’s first Love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
Moments of kindness & reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
~ Alice Munro
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
~ Mary Kay Ash
No
matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look
back on having given Love & attention to your own family, what have
you really accomplished?
~ Lee Iacocca
No
time of life is so beautiful as the early days of Love, when with every
meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing
you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us,
hovering, averting our eyes, & they seldom offer thanks, but what we
do for them is never wasted. Of all the music that reached farthest
into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with Love.
~ Mother Teresa
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln
Among
those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but
among those whom I Love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~ W.H. Auden
And
I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of
heaven & the name of that river was “suffering”. And then I saw a
boat which carries souls across the river & the name of that boat
was “Love.
~ St. John Of The Cross
And think not you can guide the course of Love. For Love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
~ Kahlil Gibran
And we are put on Earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of
~ Love.William Blake
At the touch of Love, everyone becomes a poet.
~ Plato
Be still when you have nothing to say. When genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, & say it hot.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Being deeply Loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is Love.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Love gives itself, it is not bought.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only what you are expecting to give.
~ Katherine Hepburn
Love is a canvas furnished by nature & embroidered by imagination.
~ Voltaire
Love
is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an
unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge
that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
~ Emily H. Sell
Love is all we have; the only way that each can help the other.
~ Euripides
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~ Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of faith, & whoever is of little faith is also of little Love.
~ Erich Fromm
Love is infallible; it has no errors, for all errors are the want of Love.
~ William Law
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now & then, but the strings remain forever.
~ June Masters Bacher
Love is not blind it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
~ Rabbi Julius Gordon
Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of Love.
~ Mother Teresa
Let us Love, not in word or speech, but in truth & action.
~ The Bible, 1 John 3:18 NRS
Life
is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip into it
nor draws from it but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures
into it-drop in malice & it overflows hate drop in charity & it
overflows Love.
~ John Ruskin
Life without Love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
~ William Shakespeare
Love & kindness are never wasted. They always make difference.
~ Barbara DeAngelis
Love & you shall be Loved.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love cures people – both the ones who give it & the ones who receive it.
~ Dr. Karl Menninger
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There
will always be a battle between the sexes because men & women want
different things. Men want women & women want men.
~ George Burns
Things
don’t go wrong & break your heart so you can become bitter &
give up. They happen to break you down & build you up so you can be
all that you were intended to be.
~ Charles Jones
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, & every need shall be supplied.
~ James Allen
T hose who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
Without a soul My spirit is sleeping somewhere cold Until you find it there & lead it back home.
~ Evanescence
I’ve
learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what
you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
~ Groucho Marx
Love is great when you find someone to give it to.
~ Robert Heinlein
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
~ John Dryden
He has achieved success that has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
~ Bessie Stanley
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
~ Robert Browning
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
~ Bertrand Russell
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
~ Jean Anouilh
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
~ Ingrid Bergman
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
~ Thomas Carlyle
