Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain, 1835-1910, U.S. humorist, novelist and short story author
"Courage is grace under pressure."
- Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American author and journalist
"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
- Ruth Gordon, American actress
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
- David Ben-Gurion, 1886-1973, Israeli statesman
"Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them."
- Washington Irving, 1783-1859, American author, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer and columnist
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
- Eddie Rickenbacker, 1890-1973, U.S. World War I aviator and airline businessman
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We
can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
- Maya Angelou,1928 - , American author and poet
"It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the
long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906-2001, noted writer, aviation pioneer and widow of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
- Anais Nin, 1903 - 1977, American (French-born) author and diarist
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes
longer."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, U.S. essayist and poet
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which
we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we
cannot."
- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, American diplomat & reformer
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing
heart."
- Robert Green Ingersoll, 1833-1899, U.S. agnostic apologist, lawyer and orator
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