Quotes by Authors - Page 199

A man of courage never wants weapons.
Anonymous
A bold heart is half the battle.
Anonymous
I am not afraid of a fight I have to do my duty come what may.
Therese of Lisieux
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Miguel de Cervantes
The weapon of the brave is in his heart.
Anonymous
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Anonymous
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
Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
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
Valour is nobleness of the mind.
Anonymous
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
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
Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
Pearl S. Buck
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
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D.H. Lawrence
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Thomas Bernhard
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
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty Beauty the outward form of Truth.
Grace Aguilar
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
An excuse is a lie guarded.
Jonathan Swift
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie it is often better to stick to the truth.
Angela Thirkell
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Ellis Peters
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
Truth that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
Anne Shannon Monroe
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Ann Landers
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
Anonymous
It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.
Marion Woodman
You're only as sick as your secrets.
Anonymous
You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.
Suzette Haden Elgin
Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
No blame should attach to telling the truth.
Anita Brookner
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
Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
Courage is a quietness not martial music made Born of facing up to life even when afraid.
Emily Sargent Councilman
Soldiers strike the foe in the face!
Florus
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru
None are so blind as those who will not see.
Anonymous
Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until you confront it.
Anonymous
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
T.S Eliot
The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
Anonymous
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Katharine Hepburn
Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.
James Thurber
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see not perhaps the way out but the way in.
Arthur Christopher Benson
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
The best way out of a problem is through it.
Anonymous
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J. H. Boetcker
There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
Henry Miller
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld