Courage

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it Stoicism.

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The soul, secured in her existence, smilesAt the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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We, unaccustomed to courage to liberate us into life.

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Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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True courage…has so little to do with Anger, that there lies always the strongest Suspicion against it, where this Passion is highest. The true Courage is the cool and calm. The bravest of Men have the least of a brutal bullying Insolence; and in the very time of Danger are found the most serene, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a Coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in Fury, or Anger, can never be plac'd to the account of Courage.

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The brave man is not he who feels no fear,And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

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The VC, to my mind, has a place above all other national awards. It is the highest award for gallantry. People have it in their minds that the Victoria Cross is something special, so anyone who's got the VC must be somebody special. And they're right.

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Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.

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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'

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Have the courage to think and act on your own. And have the courage to disobey.

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Walk on with courage and bravery. Go on working to improve humankind and establish the Path of Truth. (…) Fight for truth! To face life you must have great courage every day.

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Now people with courage are needed. It is better to die, facing life with courage. To live as a coward is shameful – it is better that the coward drown himself in the river. (…) Awake! Arise! Be brave!

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When a man is fearless, no man can stand against him in battle – either a battle in material life or in spiritual life. He is victorious in all battles of life.

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All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

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The French courage proceeds from vanity — the German from phlegm — the Turkish from fanaticism & opium — the Spanish from pride — the English from coolness — the Dutch from obstinacy — the Russian from insensibility — but the Italian from anger.

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And each man stands with his face in the lightReady to do what a hero can.

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There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...to dare, is the highest wisdom.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

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It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.

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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.The sound of wings.

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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.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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'Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon's mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.

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It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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Courage is of the heart by derivation,And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffsBetter than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken.

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Courage is the ability to ignore your options.

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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

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Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.

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My lord, I am without fear!

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

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Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere aude! "Have courage to use your own understanding!"—that is the motto of enlightenment.

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Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men - such as the subjects of this book - have lived. 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 human morality.

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What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out — not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

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Victory goes to those with courage!

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Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few men fall into. The vast middle space contains all the intermediate kinds and degrees of courage; and these differ as much from one another as men's faces or their humors do.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

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This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave.

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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

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Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

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My courage...exists to catch the future! I'll take my future into my own hands. That's what I wish for! For the courage to keep going forward!

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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." …You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies; but a great deal more to stand up to your friends...

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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

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Come one, come all! this rock shall flyFrom its firm base, as soon as I.

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King Richard: A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!And I will stand the hazard of the die.

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You must not thinkAnd think it pastime.

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O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!

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The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

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Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.

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I dare do all that may become a man;Who dares do more is none.

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By how much unexpected, by so muchFor courage mounteth with occasion.

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Muster your wits: stand in your own defence;Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.

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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

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The thing of courageRetorts to chiding fortune.

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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

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True courage scornsAnd, to the valiant, actions speak alone.

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Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

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Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.

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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; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

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Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.

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The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Sleep to wake.

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We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

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Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bendAs falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

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Stop shallow water still running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

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Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it soft as silks remains.

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O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.

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"Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old,Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

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What! shall one monk, scarce known beyond his cell,Rocked Europe, and discharmed the triple crown.

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Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.

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I argue notRight onward.

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Non solum taurus ferit uncis cornibus hostem,Verum etiam instanti læsa repugnat ovis.

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Cowards may fear to die; but courage stout,Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.

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Be of good courage, and if you are discouraged be encouraged in the presence of the different forms of nature.

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Virtus in astra tendit, in mortem timor.

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Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

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This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

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Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

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A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

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Consult the honor of religion more, and your personal safety less. Is it for the honor of religion (think you) that Christians should be as timorous as hares to start at every sound?

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Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business, — all who have got a task to do, a work to finish — bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose — till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned.

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Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers.

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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

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There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

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Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude — the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on Divine aid.

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In the whole range of earthly experience, no quality is more attractive and ennobling than moral courage. Like that mountain of rock which towers aloft in the Irish Sea, the man possessed of this principle is unmoved by the swelling surges which fret and fume at his feet. And yet, unlike that same Ailsa Craig, he is sensitive beyond measure to every adverse influence — battling against it, and triumphing over it by a power which proceeds from God's throne, and pervades his entire being.

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Whenever you do what is holy, be of good cheer, knowing that God Himself takes part with rightful courage.

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What we want is men with a little courage to stand up for Christ. When Christianity wakes up, and every child that belongs to the Lord is willing to speak for Him, is willing to work for Him, and, if need be, willing to die for Him, then Christianity will advance, and we shall see the work of the Lord prosper.

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To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

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My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

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Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

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The best hearts are ever the bravest.

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