Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller
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
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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