Courage and Fear

"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courage and Fear

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear."

Ferdinand Foch

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love."

Eleanor Farjeon

Courage and Fear

Love

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Opportunity knocks only once."

Catalan Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Destiny and Fate

Success and Fame

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Desperate times call for desperate measures."

English Proverbs

Courage and Fear

History and Nations

Rating: 8.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Who is all-powerful should fear everything."

Pierre Corneille "Cinna"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed."

Michael Pritchard

Courage and Fear

Good and Evil

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it."

John Randolph

Courage and Fear

Peace and War

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

Bertrand Russell "Unpopular Essays"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore."

Alan Moore "Watchmen"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God."

Samuel Johnson

Courage and Fear

God and Religion

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Baruch Spinoza "Ethics"

Courage and Fear

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage and Fear

Optimism and Hope

Various

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T.S. Eliot

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war."

Sir James Glover

Courage and Fear

Human

Peace and War

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."

Robert Cody

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"It is in great dangers that we see great courage."

Jean Francois Regnard

Courage and Fear

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage and Fear

Love

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed; Give me courage to change things which must be changed ;And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other."

Reinhold Niebuhr

Courage and Fear

God and Religion

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."

Reinhold Niebuhr

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."

Voltaire

Courage and Fear

Marriage

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Courage and Fear

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A brave man dies but once, a coward many times."

Native American Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Carl von Clausewitz

Courage and Fear

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Ruth Gordon

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Andrew Carnegie

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Kazimierz Matan

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Francis Herbert Bradley "Aphorisms"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Those who fled will fight another time."

Tertullian "De fuga in persecutione"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Oscar Wilde

Courage and Fear

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 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"

Courage and Fear

Human

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Authority, Government

Courage and Fear

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

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

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

George Bernard Shaw

Anger

Courage and Fear

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Courage and Fear

Defeates and Mistakes

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Bertolt Brecht "Life of Galileo"

Courage and Fear

Patriotism

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Courage and Fear

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Rudyard Kipling

Courage and Fear

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Bertrand Russell

Courage and Fear

Good and Evil

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Albert Einstein

Courage and Fear

Good and Evil

Law and Crime

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

J. K. Rowling

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Christian McCormack

Courage and Fear

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Aleister Crowley "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Courage and Fear

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Robert F. Kennedy

Courage and Fear

Success and Fame

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)