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| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide. (H. P. Blavatsky) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. (Ralph W. Sockman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. (Carl Sandburg) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out. (Akhenaton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt) | [▲] | [▼] |
| No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. (Channing Pollock) | [▲] | [▼] |
| True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. (John Petit-Senn) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. (Aesop) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. (Thomas Paine) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. (Ovid) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Fortune and love favor the brave. (Ovid) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. (Napolean) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other. (Douglas MacArthur) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. (Francois La Rochefoucauld) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insis tupon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten. (John F. Kennedy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The brave man is not he who feels nofear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. (Joanna Baillie) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. (Samuel Johnson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. (Lyndon Baines Johnson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| One man with courage makes a majority. (Andrew Jackson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. (Robert Green Ingersoll) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. (Dolores Ibarruri) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Courage is grace under pressure. (Ernest Hemingway) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other. (Oliver J. Hart) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. (Joseph Addison) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle) | [▲] | [▼] |
| This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. (Euripides) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. (English Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | [▲] | [▼] |