Quotes by Authors - Page 198

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 lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
Sir James M. Barrie
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
Courage isrequired 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
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
G.K. Chesterton
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
David Seabury
Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.
Frances Rodman
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Henry S. Haskins
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Anonymous
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
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
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
A. G. Sertillanges
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 annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
Audre Lorde
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones
I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail.
Rona Barrett
Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.
Lois Korey
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.
Katharine Hepburn
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
To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.
Anonymous
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
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.
William Barclay
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.
Roscoe Snowden
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
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
Michel de Montaigne
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
Courage is the right disposition toward fear.
Anonymous
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
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.
John Wainwright
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When you're my size in the pros fear is a sign that you're not stupid.
Jerry Levias
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
Margaret Truman
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
Richard L. Evans
Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Anonymous
The brave venture anything.
Anonymous
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B.C. Forbes
It is brave to be involved.
Gwendolyn Brooks
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?
Jeremy Collier
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Sir James M. Barrie
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
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anaïs Nin
Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Browne
There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.
John F Kennedy
A brave arm makes a short sword long.
Anonymous