Physical courage, which despises all danger,
will make a man brave in one way;
and moral courage, which despises all opinion,
will make a man brave in another.
?Charles Caleb Colton
The fact is, that to do anything in the
world worth doing, we must not
stand back shivering and thinking
of the cold and danger, but jump in and
scramble through as well as we can.
?Robert Cushing
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
?Anonymous
True courage is not the brutal force
of vulgar heroes, but the firm
resolve of virtue and reason.
?Alfred North Whitehead
Courage is what it takes to stand up
and speak; courage is also
what it takes to sit down and listen.
?Winston Churchill
He who is not courageous enough to take
risks will accomplish nothing in life.
?Muhammad Ali
No person among us deserves any other
reward for performing a brave and
worthy action, but the consciousness
of having served his nation.
?Joseph Bryant
(Thayendanegea of the Mohawk Tribe)
You can't test courage cautiously.
?Anne Dillard
It takes courage to grow up and
become who you really are.
?Edward Estlin Cummings
It is easy to be brave
from a safe distance.
?Aesop
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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is the time to dare and endure.
?Winston Churchill
True courage is like a kite; a
contrary wind raises it higher.
?John Petit-Senn
The brave man is not he who feels no fear.
For that were stupid and irrational.
But he, whose noble soul its fears
subdues, and bravely dares
the danger nature shrinks from.
?Joanna Baillie
Courage is grace under pressure.
?Ernest Hemingway
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
?Samuel Johnson
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
I'd rather give my life
than be afraid to give it.
?Lyndon Baines Johnson
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms:
it means a strong desire to live
taking the form of readiness to die.
?Gilbert K. Chesterton
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
No man in the world has more courage than
the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
?Channing Pollock
What a new face courage puts on everything!
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
?Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
It takes vision and courage to create,
it takes faith and courage to prove.
?Owen D. Young
One man with courage makes a majority.
?Andrew Jackson
"I'm very brave generally,"
he went on in a low voice;
"only today I happen
to have a headache."
?Lewis Carroll
Brave men are all vertebrates;
they have their softness on the
surface and their
toughness in the middle.
?G. K. Chesterton
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because
he seeks in himself the
courage of other persons.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some have been thought brave because
they were afraid to run away.
?English Proverb
This is courage in a man: to bear
unflinchingly what heaven sends.
?Euripides
Perfect valour consists in doing
without witnesses that which we
would be capable of
doing before everyone.
?François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Courage is like love; it must
have hope for nourishment.
?Napoleon I
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
Sometimes even to live
is an act of courage.
?Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear-not absence of fear.
Except a creature be part coward it
is not a compliment to say it is brave.
?Mark Twain
The paradox of courage is that
a man must be a little careless
of his life in order to keep it.
?G. K. Chesterton
If there is one thing upon this earth
that mankind love and admire
better than another, it is a brave man, --
it is the man who dares to look the
devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
?James A. Garfield
The humblest citizen of all the land,
when clad in the armor of a
righteous cause, is stronger
than all the hosts of error.
?William Jennings Bryan
