It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days
as a lamb. Roman Proverb
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships
everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging
adversity. Epicurus
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become
just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by
doing brave acts. Aristotle
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar
Gracian
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but
he that loses his courage loses all. Miguel
de Cervantes
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas
Szasz
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in
the world. Helen Keller
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston
Churchill
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without
losing heart. R. G. Ingersoll
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by
those who fought, fell and rose again. Anonymous
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is
generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale
Carnegie
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais
Nin
One man with courage makes a majority. Andrew
Jackson
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man
has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. Samuel Johnson
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond
Lindquist
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm
resolve of virtue and reason. Alfred North
Whitehead
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. John
Wainwright
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. Horace
Smith
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. Robert
Cody
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. Clare
Booth Luce
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and
resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Theodore
Roosevelt
Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward! Thomas
Alva Edison
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. Henry
H. Tweedy
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. e.e.cummings
The first of all qualities of a general is courage. David
McCullough
Courage is nothing less than the power
To overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice,
While continuing to affirm inwardly
That life with all its sorrows is good;
That everything is meaningful even if in a sense
Beyond our understanding;
And there is always tomorrow.