Famous Quotes P15 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. 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. 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. To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness. The most mortifying infirmity in human nature is, perhaps, cowardice. Men perish by the sword, cowards by disease. Between cowardice and despair, valor is gendered. If you knew how cowardly your enemy is, you would slap him. Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy. Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning. The coward despairs. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight are all. All men would be cowards if they durst. That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. 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. Being “brave” means doing or facing something frightening. Being “fearless” means being without fear. It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking. Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. The more frightened you become, the better your chances of achieving success. Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. 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. I’m a real pussycat with an iron tail. Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. Necessity makes even the timid brave. Necessity does the work of courage. 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. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Many become brave when brought to bag. Courage mounteth with occasion. When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage. Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal. Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams. Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. Optimism is the foundation of courage. I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it. 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. We would be cowards, if we had courage enough. A coward’s fear can make a coward valiant. 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. No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father. Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. 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. 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. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle; it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears. We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. 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. 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. Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances. Courage is its own reward. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is grace under pressure. Courage is the lovely virtue the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children. Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right. Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self humiliation. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Courage consists of the power of self recovery. Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence. Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice. Courage is the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. 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. If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. The best protection any woman can have is courage. 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. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age. Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway. Freedom is not for the timid. Courage easily finds its own eloquence. 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. But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail. Courage is always the surest wisdom. Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. |
