Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.
—Indian Proverb
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences; whence it is bad in council though good in execution.—The right use of the bold, therefore, is, that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds under the direction of others.—For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they be very great.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
The will to do, the soul to dare.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
—Gyorgy Konrad (1933–2019) Hungarian Novelist, Sociologist, Essayist
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
—Curtis L. Carlson (1914–99) American Businessman
Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.
—Unknown
Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German Philosopher
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire’s center.
—Stephen Spender (1909–95) English Poet, Critic
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
—Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
—George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746–1816) British Nobleman, Politician
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) English Essayist
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
—Leo Rosten (1908–97) Polish-born American Humorist, Screenwriter, Writer
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
—Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American Civil Liberties Lawyer
When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.
—Louis L’Amour (1908–88) 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) English Essayist
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 have it when the next test comes.
—Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American Biographer, Novelist, Socialist
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
—Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter
A man of courage is also full of faith.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
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 (1803–82) American Philosopher
Discretion is the better part of valour.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.
—Indian Proverb
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American Aviator, Author
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Philosopher
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
—Unknown
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