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. Its when you know youre licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves either in imagination or practice.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death a necessary end Will come when it will come.
There is a certain blend of courage integrity character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is guts.
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.
One isnt necessarily born with courage but one is born with potential. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cant be kind true merciful generous or honest.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
No matter how desperate the predicament is Im always very much in earnest about clutching my cane straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie even though I have just landed on my head.
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.
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage.
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Courage is doing what youre afraid to do. There can be no courage unless youre scared.
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. Its when you know youre licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Courage is being scared to deathand saddling up anyway.
If courage wasnt a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.
The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.
Keep your fears to yourself but share your inspiration with others.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves either in imagination or practice.
Tell a man he is brave and you help him to become so.
Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
It is not who is right but what is right that is important.
One man with courage makes a majority.
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear But being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger But in seeing it and conquering it.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death a necessary end Will come when it will come.
The secret of Happiness is Freedom And the secret of Freedom Courage.
There is a certain blend of courage integrity character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is guts.
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.
His resolve is not to seem but to be the best.
Often the real test of courage is not to die but to live.
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
One isnt necessarily born with courage but one is born with potential. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cant be kind true merciful generous or honest.
Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another not because he does not feel them but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
Where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
No matter how desperate the predicament is Im always very much in earnest about clutching my cane straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie even though I have just landed on my head.
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
Since fear is mostly about ignorance the best part is that it?s as temporary as you choose.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
The ideals which have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness beauty and truth.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
To bear other peoples afflictions everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Id rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
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.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
One man with courage is a majority.