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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON COURAGE 2
You have to be tough.
Mike Ditka (1939-, American football player, coach)
Courage follows action.
Mack R. Douglas
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American-Austrian management consultant)
None but the brave deserve the fair.
John Dryden (1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic)
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
John Foster Dulles (1888-1959, American republican secretary of state)
Many think they have a kind heart who only have weak nerves.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1326, German mystic)
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Umberto Eco (1929-, Italian novelist and critic)
Don't be afraid of hard work.
Marian Wright Edelman
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee
Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
Jules Ellinger
The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British poet, critic)
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003, American actress, writer)
What a new face courage puts on everything!
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
This is courage... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
Richard L. Evans
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
Richard L. Evans
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
Joseph Farrell
True courage consists not in flying from the storms of life, but in braving and steering through them with prudence.
Hannah Webster Faster
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
Francois de Salignac Fenelon (1651-1715, French writer)
I am more important than my problems.
Jose Ferrer (1912-1992, Puerto Rican actor, director, producer)
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880, French novelist)
It takes courage to live -- courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.
Jerome P. Fleishman
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Fernando Flores
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B.C. Forbes
When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B.C. Forbes
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
James V. Forrestal (1892-1949, American statesman)
Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
The more wit the less courage.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794, British historian)
I was nervous and confident at the same time, nervous about going out there in front of all of those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.
Althea Gibson (1927-, American tennis player)
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, that even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909, American editor, poet)
No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away?
David Gilmore
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
George Robert Gissing (1857-1903, British novelist, critic, essayist)
Have the courage of your desire.
George Robert Gissing (1857-1903, British novelist, critic, essayist)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate. They too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Dr. Kurt Goldstein
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.
Julian Weber Gordon
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658, Spanish philosopher, writer)
He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
James Graham (1612-1650, Scottish general)
Courage is always the surest wisdom.
Wilfred Grenfell
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
Lord Greville (1554-1628, British poet)
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them.
William F. Halsey (1882-1959, American admiral)
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of the UN)
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of the UN)
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Corra May Harris (1869-1935, American author)
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
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
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
Henry S. Haskins
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, American novelist, short story writer)
Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984, American playwright)
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961, American writer)
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Aaron Hill (1685-1750, British dramatist)
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
Homer (c. 850 -? BC, Greek epic poet)
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
Vernon Howard (1935-1992, American author, speaker)
You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845, American President (7th))
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845, American President (7th))
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, American President (35th))
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855, Danish philosopher, writer)
There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)
Courage is acting in spite of fear.
Howard W. Hunter
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899, American orator, lawyer)
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899, American orator, lawyer)
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899, American orator, lawyer)
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.
Andrew Jensen
I am not afraid.... I was born to do this.
Joan of Arc
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
Billy Joel (1949-, American musician, piano man, singer, songwriter)
I decided, once and for all, that I was going to make it or die.
John H. Johnson (1918-, American businessman, founder of Johnson Publishing)
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973, American President (36th))
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
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