'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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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.
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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 misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
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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...
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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The more wit the less courage.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
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True courage is 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 and free.
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
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It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.
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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.
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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
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He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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