courage

1.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

- Harold Wilson

2.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

- John Simon

3.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

- Sydney Smith

4.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

- Ellinger, Jules

5.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.

- Booker T. Washington

6.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

7.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

8.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

- Duras, Marguerite

9.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

- Anouilh, Jean

10.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

- Shaftesbury, Lord

11.

Be larger than your task.

- Marden, Orison Swett

12.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

- Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

14.

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

- Steve Martini

15.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

- Ovid

16.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

- Mary Tyler Moore

17.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

- John Lancaster Spalding

18.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

19.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

- Anderson, Marian

20.

That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

- Twain, Mark