COURAGE/BRAVERY/VALOR
1. A brave arm makes a short sword long. ~Unknown
2. A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. ~Euripides
3. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. A man of courage never wants weapons. ~Unknown
5. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter
6. All serious daring starts from within. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones
8. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. ~James Freeman Clarke
9. Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ~John Quincy Adams
10. Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
11. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
12. Courage is a kind of salvation. ~Plato
13. Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~Charles Kennedy
14. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton
15. Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers
16. Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather
17. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne
18. Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
19. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~George Smith Patton
20. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard
21. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
22. Courage is knowing what not to fear. ~Plato
23. Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler
24. Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ~Joseph Epstein
25. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis
26. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
27. Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson
28. 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
29. Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ~Horace Smith
30. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ~Clare Booth Luce
31. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist
32. Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ~Amelia Earhart
33. Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Irisa Hail
34. Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch
35. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
36. Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion
37. Courage without conscience is a wild beast. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
38. Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein
39. Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ~Ambrose Bierce
40. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942
41. Dare to be naive. ~Buckminster Fuller
42. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark places where it leads. ~Erica Jong
44. Fear and courage are brothers. ~Proverb
45. For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy
46. Fortune helps the brave. ~Publius Terentius Afer
47. Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody
48. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ~Muhammad Ali
49. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ~Maya Angelou
50. 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 you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
51. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. ~Martin Luther King, jr.
52. I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball
53. In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~Unknown
54. In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
55. Inside courage laughs fear. ~Jareb Teague
56. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~Mark Twain
57. It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~Aesop
58. It is not an act of intellect which makes people change themselves for the better, but an act of the will. For intelligence without courage is as static as courage without intelligence is rash. It is intelligence with courage that results in the necessary act of the will we need in order to bring about constructive change in ourselves. ~Sidney J. Harris
59. It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true. ~Sara E. Anderson
60. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
61. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anais Nin
62. Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
63. Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ~Aristotle
64. Necessity does the work of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
65. No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins
66. One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ~Maya Angelou
67. One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson
68. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~Dorothy Thompson
69. Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler
70. People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
71. Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
72. 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
73. Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ~Thomas Fuller
74. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
75. Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. ~Lauren Raffo
76. The best way out is always through. ~Robert Frost
77. The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. ~Corra Harris
78. 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. ~John F. Kennedy
79. 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
80. The heroes and leaders toward peace in our time will be those men and women who have the courage to plunge into the darkness at the bottom of the personal and the corporate psyche and face the enemy within. ~Sam Keen
81. The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois
82. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
83. The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ~Albert Camus
84. There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ~John Wainwright
85. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ~Soren Kierkegaard
86. To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. ~Theodore H. White
87. To him that waits, all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore
88. To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. ~Edward Weeks
89. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ~Alfred North Whitehead
90. Underneath courage shouts fear, but of a hoarse voice. ~Irisa Hail
91. Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if 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
92. Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. ~Michel de Montaigne
93. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. ~Helen Keller
94. 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
95. When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. ~Henry David Thoreau
96. When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ~Mark Rutherford
97. Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? ~Marian Wright Edelman
98. With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. ~Keshavan Nair
99. Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. ~Baltasar Gracian
100. Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. ~Bernadette Devlin
101. You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard
102. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
103. You must walk into your job, every day, willing to be fired. ~Rob Gray