Quotes by American Authors - Page 194

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
Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all.
John G. Neihardt
Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
Edgar Watson Howe
If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.
Edgar Watson Howe
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
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
General George S. Patton
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
Fate loves the fearless.
James Russell Lowell
When you're my size in the pros fear is a sign that you're not stupid.
Jerry Levias
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
Margaret Truman
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.
Randolph Bourne
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
Richard L. Evans
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.
Vladimir Zworykin
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 of endeavor.
Ralph J. Bunche
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.
Charles M. Schwab
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
It is brave to be involved.
Gwendolyn Brooks
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Talent is helpful in writing but guts are absolutely necessary.
Jessamyn West
The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.
Robert J. McCracken
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
James A. Worsham
You will never do anything in this world without courage.
James Lane Allen
Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
Henry David Thoreau
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues but... they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
Cookie Lavagetto
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
No great thing conies to any man unless he has courage.
Cardinal James Gibbons
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
Robert Cody
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
General Douglas MacArthur
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anaïs Nin
There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.
John F Kennedy
War is fear cloaked in courage.
General William Westmoreland
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
Ralph W Sockman
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
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
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
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
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
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
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
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
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
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
Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
James Harvey Robinson
It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
John Lancaster Spalding