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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
~ Sir Thomas Browne, in Religio Medici, section xliv
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
~ Ruth Gordon
Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you’re misunderstood.
~ Charles Swindoll
Fortes fortuna adiuvat. [Fortune favours the brave.]
~ Terence, in Phormio
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray, in The Four Georges
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De l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace! [Audacity, audacity again, and audacity always.]
~ Georges Danton, to the French Legislative Assembly on September 2, 1792
Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
~ Nicholi Machiavelli, in Discourses
In audacity and obstinacy will be found safety.
~ Napoleon I, in Maxims of War
Desperate affairs, require desperate remedies
~ Horatio Nelson
The gods favour the bold.
~ Ovid, in Metamorphoses, x
Bold decisions give the best promise of success.
~ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in Rules of Desert Warfare
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
~ Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene
Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from heat to foot!
~ William Shakespeare, in Cymbeline
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History is only a confused heap of facts.
A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch.
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
Women are much more like each other than men; they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
Women, especially, are to be talked to, as below men, and above children.
