Quotes by Authors - Page 200

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
Thomas Fuller
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
Thomas Fuller
If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly and [if] there is no situation to face it falls away of its own weight.
Florence Scovel Shinn
There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses helplessness despair and present to the world only a smile an eagerness curiosity enthusiasm interest.
Anaïs Nin
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.
Ben Ames Williams
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.
Thomas Fuller
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
Bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Preston Bradley
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.
William Makepeace Thackeray
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.
Livy
In politics guts is all.
Barbara Castle
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead.
Rollo May
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
Winston Churchill
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
Mary Daly
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
E. H. Chapin
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
C.S. Lewis
(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.
William T. Sherman
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
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
Necessity does the work of courage.
George Eliot
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself.
John F Kennedy
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
G.K. Chesterton
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'
Michel de Montaigne
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
Showing up is eighty percent of life.
Woody Allen
We could be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
Anonymous
Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.
Samuel Butler
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.
Jan Wong
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country
Louisa May Alcott
We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Bolton
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies
The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.
Alexander Chase
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.
Eric Hoffer
What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.
Robert F. Kennedy
Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
T.S Eliot
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.
Louisa May Alcott
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
Alice Duer Miller
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.
Sydney Smith