Sunday, July 30, 2017 – 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 excitments, 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
Just Above Sunset 