Courage Quotes - Page 7

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Herodotus

In times of stress be bold and valiant.

Horace

It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.

Homer

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

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Fortune helps the brave.

Virgil

Audacity augments courage hesitation fear.

Publilius Syrus

God helps the brave.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Fortune befriends the bold.

Audacity has made kings.

Prosper Jolyot de Crebillion

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.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

William T. Sherman

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

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.

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.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Winston Churchill

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Mary Daly

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead.

Rollo May

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Nothing but courage can guide life.

Wealth lost-something lost Honor lost-much lost Courage lost-all lost.

Old German proverb

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

In politics guts is all.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Earlene Larson Jenks

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Marie Antoinette

Necessity does the work of courage.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Cervantes

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

G. C. Lichtenberg

As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

Napoléon Bonaparte

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

Cervantes

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

Courage - fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Many become brave when brought to bay.

Norwegian proverb

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage both as a whole and separately in each country in each government in each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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.

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

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.

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

Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Victoria

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