Quotes by Poets - Page 71

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott
It is brave to be involved.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Giacomo Leopardi
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
None but the brave deserve the fair.
John Dryden
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Miguel de Cervantes
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid
We must have the courage to be happy.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D.H. Lawrence
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.
Edna Saint Vincent Millay
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
Horace
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
T.S Eliot
Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.
Horace
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
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.
Homer
In times of stress be bold and valiant.
Horace
Fortune befriends the bold.
John Dryden
Fortune helps the brave.
Virgil
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee
God helps the brave.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
Bliss Carman
Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Cervantes
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Cervantes
Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
John Dryden
Just for a handful of silver he left us Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
John Ciardi
God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks.
John Taylor
The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.
William Cowper
(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by hating them as convinced men have hated say Darwin and Freud as agents of some devil.
John Ciardi
The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
Robert Frost
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
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
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Horace Smith
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
Robert Southey
I earn that I eat get that I wear owe no man hate envy no man's happiness glad of other men's good content with my harm.
William Shakespeare
The soft whispers of the God in man.
Edward Young
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
William Shakespeare
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing after all.
Eugene Field
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!
Lord Byron
Conscience reigns but it does not govern.
Paul Valéry
A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
William Shakespeare