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Thomas Fuller


Category: Bravery and Fear

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1. "Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."

English proverb


2. "Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil, "Aeneid"

Other categories: Success and Fame


3. "Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is."

Will Rogers


4. "People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices."

Terry Anderson


5. "Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

Robert G. Ingersoll

Other categories: Sin and Conscience


6. "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

Jean Anouilh, "Becket"

Other categories: Life and Death


7. "There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Cyril Connolly

Other categories: Manners and Ethics


8. "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

Harold Wilson


9. "Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."

George Sewell

Other categories: Sin and Conscience


10. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anais Nin, "The Diary of Anais Nin"

Other categories: Life and Death


11. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-tse

Other categories: Love -:- Power and Weakness


12. "Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

Dorothy Bernard


13. "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."

George Jackson


14. "There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Other categories: God and Religion


15. "Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Andrew Carnegie


16. "Fear is conquerable. Doubt is defeatable. Self worth is buildable."

Terri McPherson

Other categories: Power and Weakness


17. "It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Other categories: Various


18. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other categories: Work and Laziness -:- Talent and Genius


19. "[…] only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Franklin D. Roosevelt


20. "I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."

Samuel Goldwyn

Other categories: Truth and Falsity


21. "Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar."

Erica Jong


22. "It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."

Elizabeth Henry


23. "Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace."

Amelia Earhart

Other categories: Peace and War


24. "Bravery never goes out of fashion."

William Makepeace Thackeray


25. "The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Other categories: Pain and Tears


26. "Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense."

John Ralston Saul, "The Doubter's Companion"

Other categories: Various


27. "Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas."

Erwin Rommel

Other categories: Various


28. "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Success and Fame


29. "Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."

John Buchan

Other categories: Peace and War


30. "Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Other categories: Optimism and Hope -:- Work and Laziness


31. "Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Friedrich von Schiller

Other categories: Optimism and Hope


32. "Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."

Edmund Burke


33. "Those who love to be feared fear to be loved."

St. Francis de Sales

Other categories: Love


34. "Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end."

Abraham Maslow

Other categories: Success and Fame


35. "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement


36. "I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear Him not."

Saadi

Other categories: God and Religion


37. "A hero is a man who does what he can."

Romain Rolland


38. "I fear no one, but respect everyone."

Roger Federer


39. "Danger is next neighbour to security."

English proverb

Other categories: Various


40. "Courage is grace under pressure."

Ernest Hemingway


41. "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

Eric Hoffer


42. "The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Robert G. Ingersoll


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

George Gordon Byron

Other categories: History and Nations


44. "Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

Arthur Koestler


45. "We crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."

Fulton Oursler

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Time and Passing


46. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

Ambrose Redmoon


47. "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy


48. "It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

Alfred Adler


49. "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says... I'll try again tommorrow."

Mary Anne Radmacher


50. "It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life."

Irish proverb

Other categories: Life and Death

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