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Category: Bravery and Fear

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1. "Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."

Carl von Clausewitz

2. "Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use."

­Ruth Gordon

3. "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Andrew Carnegie

4. "Sometimes it keeps us alive hope, sometimes habit, and sometimes fear. In the first case this is life, in the other vegetation, in the third hell."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Optimism and Hope

5. "Life is a jar, where the honey is just a thin layer on top."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Life and Death

6. "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Quotations about: Various

7. "The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

Francis Herbert Bradley, "Aphorisms"

8. "Fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying."

Anon.

Quotations about: Life and Death

9. "Those who fled will fight another time."

Tertullian, "De fuga in persecutione"

10. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade name of the firm, that is all."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

11. "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Quotations about: Human

12. "It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

Aung San Suu Kyi

Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness

13. "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up, Notebook E"

Quotations about: Various

14. "Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Anger

15. "Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat."

George Eliot, "Scenes of Clerical Life"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

16. "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

Robert Louis Stevenson

17. "Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes."

Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo"

Quotations about: Patriotism

18. "And the simple step of a simple courageous man is not to take part in the lie, not to support deceit. Let the lie come into the world, even dominate the world, but not through me."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

19. "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears."

Rudyard Kipling

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

20. "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Good and Evil

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21. "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Good and Evil

22. "Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

J. K. Rowling

23. "Courage is the path that leads from fear to action."

Christian McCormack

24. "Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

25. "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Robert F. Kennedy

Quotations about: Success and Fame

26. "Fortune sides with he who dares."

Virgil

Quotations about: Success and Fame

27. "It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Pain and Tears

28. "It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog!"

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

29. "Guess if you can and choose if you dare."

Pierre Corneille, "Héraclius"

Quotations about: Various

30. "Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

31. "Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "Crime and Punishment"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

32. "You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope -:- Youth and Age

33. "One man with courage makes a majority."

Andrew Jackson

34. "Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

35. "Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

Clive Staples Lewis

36. "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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

37. "We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

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

English proverb

39. "Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil, "Aeneid"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

Will Rogers

41. "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

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

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

Jean Anouilh, "Becket"

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Cyril Connolly

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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

Harold Wilson

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

George Sewell

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

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

Anais Nin, "The Diary of Anais Nin"

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

Lao-tse

Quotations about: Love -:- Power and Weakness

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

Dorothy Bernard

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

George Jackson

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