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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.Collection: Courage
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.Collection: Courage
Courage is the only Magic worth having.Collection: Courage
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.Collection: Courage
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.Collection: Courage
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.Collection: Courage
All bravery stands upon comparisons.Collection: Courage
Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it.Collection: Courage
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.Collection: Courage
nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.Collection: Courage
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.Collection: Courage
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.Collection: Courage
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.Collection: Courage
To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.Collection: Courage
What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.Collection: Courage
For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.Collection: Courage
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.Collection: Courage
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.Collection: Courage
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.Collection: Courage
Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.Collection: Courage
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.Collection: Courage
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Collection: Courage
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.Collection: Courage
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.Collection: Courage
Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.Collection: Courage
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.Collection: Courage
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.Collection: Courage
Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.Collection: Courage
History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad peopleBut the appalling silence and indifference of the good.Our generation will have to repent notOnly for the words and actions of the children of darknessBut also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.Collection: Courage
There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.Collection: Courage
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.Collection: Courage
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.Collection: Courage
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.Collection: Courage
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.Collection: Courage
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.Collection: Courage
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.Collection: Courage
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.Collection: Courage
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.Collection: Courage
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. This novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.Collection: Courage
Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.Collection: Courage
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.Collection: Courage
I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.Collection: Courage
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.Collection: Courage
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.Collection: Courage
Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.Collection: Courage
The great home of the soul is the open road.Collection: Courage
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.Collection: Courage