Sunday, August 1, 2021 – Take Courage
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~ Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~ Winston Churchill
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
The weak in courage is strong in cunning. ~ William Blake
Courage is grace under pressure. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid… Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~ Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. ~ Omar N. Bradley
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. ~ Nelson Mandela
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ~ Albert Camus
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ~ Confucius
From caring comes courage. ~ Lao Tzu
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. ~ Lao Tzu
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ~ Mark Twain
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~ C. S. Lewis
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. ~ John Wayne
The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. ~ Thucydides
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T. S. Eliot
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ e. e. cummings
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ~ Maya Angelou
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. ~ Amelia Earhart
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~ Anaïs Nin
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ~ Coco Chanel
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. ~ Margaret Mitchell
All happiness depends on courage and work. ~ Honoré de Balzac
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ~ Victor Hugo
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion. ~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed. ~ D. H. Lawrence
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else. ~ Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. ~ Jean-Luc Godard
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. ~ Emma Donoghue
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ~ Harry S Truman
This world of ours must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ~ Thomas Paine
Fear is the mother of foresight. ~ Thomas Hardy
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ~ C. S. Lewis
Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. ~ Marilyn Ferguson
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. ~ Charles Kennedy
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ~ George S. Patton
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes, they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. ~ Tecumseh
I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away. ~ Hedy Lamarr
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me. ~ Franz Kafka
Never be afraid to sit a while and think. ~ Lorraine Hansberry
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are very few monsters that warrant the fear we have of them. ~ Andre Gide
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. ~ William Hazlitt
I have a fear of being boring. ~ Christian Bale
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ~ Bertrand Russell
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep, so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. ~ Harold Kushner
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. ~ John Cheever
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. ~ Thomas Hobbes
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. ~ Thomas Jefferson
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. ~ Patrick Rothfuss
Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it. I try to send it back. But sometimes I’m too afraid to and have to eat it anyway. ~ Martin Amis
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. ~ Joseph Campbell
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