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Category: Bravery and Fear

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

Francis Herbert Bradley, "Aphorisms"

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

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Other categories: Life and Death

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

Tertullian, "De fuga in persecutione"

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

Oscar Wilde

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

5. "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"

Other categories: Human

6. "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

Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness

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

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

Other categories: Various

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

George Bernard Shaw

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Anger

9. "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"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo"

Other categories: Patriotism

12. "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

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

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

Rudyard Kipling

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

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

Bertrand Russell

Other categories: Good and Evil

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

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Law and Crime -:- Good and Evil

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Christian McCormack

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

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

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

Robert F. Kennedy

Other categories: Success and Fame

20. "Fortune sides with he who dares."

Virgil

Other categories: Success and Fame

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Pain and Tears

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

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Other categories: Various

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

Pierre Corneille, "Héraclius"

Other categories: Various

24. "Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Joy and Sadness

25. "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"

Other categories: Power and Weakness

26. "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

Other categories: Optimism and Hope -:- Youth and Age

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

Andrew Jackson

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

29. "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

30. "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"

31. "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

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

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

English proverb

33. "Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil, "Aeneid"

Other categories: Success and Fame

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

Will Rogers

35. "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

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

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

Jean Anouilh, "Becket"

Other categories: Life and Death

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

Cyril Connolly

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

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

Harold Wilson

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

George Sewell

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

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

Anais Nin, "The Diary of Anais Nin"

Other categories: Life and Death

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

Lao-tse

Other categories: Love -:- Power and Weakness

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

Dorothy Bernard

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

George Jackson

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Other categories: God and Religion

46. "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

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

Terri McPherson

Other categories: Power and Weakness

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

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

Other categories: Various

49. "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

50. "[…] 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

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