COURAGE
Addison, Joseph
Courage that grows from constitution, often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty, acts in a uniform manner.
Baillie, Joanna
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; but he whose noble soul subdues its fear, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.—Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Clarke, James F.
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
Collier, Jeremy
True courage is the result of reasoning.—Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins; and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.
Colton, Caleb C.
Physical courage which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.—The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.
Confucius
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
Dryden, John
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
Froude, James A.
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
Goodrich, Samuel G.
Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical.—It springs from a consciousness of virtue, and renders a man, in the pursuit or defence of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.
Hill, Aaron
That courage is poorly housed which dwells in numbers.—The lion never counts the herd that is about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Jones, William, of Nayland
The truest courage is always mixed with circumspection; this being the quality which distinguishes the courage of the wise from the hardiness of the rash and foolish.
Niebuhr, Barthold G.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Plautus
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plutarch
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Richter, Jean Paul
Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but are the first to rescue when others are endangered.
Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de la
No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.
Shaftsbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper
True courage is cool and calm.—The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
Shakespeare, William
By how much unexpected, by so much we must awake, and endeavor for defence; for courage mounteth with occasion.
Sidney, Sir Philip
Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage.—Hardiness should not darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness.—Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
Smith, Sydney
A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage.
Whitehead, Paul
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
