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"Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold,"
second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: inscription on the Gates of Busyrane
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I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act I, sc. 4)
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The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace,
the best of circumstances.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe
to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded
thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that
thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Author: Bible
Source: Joshua (ch. 1, v. 7)
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But straightway Jesus spake upto them saying, Be of good cheer:
it is I; be not afraid.
Author: Bible
Source: Matthew (ch. XIV, v. 27)
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The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
Author: Robert Blair
Source: The Grave (pt. I, l. 58)
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better,
Sleep to wake.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Epilogue--Asolando
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We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is
happening to our neighbours.
Author: Joseph Chamberlain
Source: in a speech at Southwick
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
. . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Author: Joseph Chamberlain
Source: in a speech at Southwick
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. III, ch. VIII), (Yonge's translation)
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great
without audacity.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. III, ch. VIII), (Yonge's translation)
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Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Purgatorio (V, 14)
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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1)
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions,
inspirations, flashes of genius.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Society and Solitude--Courage
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Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.
Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those great in war, are great in love.
The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
Author: George Farquhar
Source: Love and a Bottle, part of dedication to the Lord Marquis of Carmarthen
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Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm
and it will turn.
Author: Robert Greene
Source: Worth of Wit
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Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really
are.
Author: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Source: Guesses at Truth
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Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
Author: Aaron Hill
Source: Verses Written on a Window
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O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;
For more of those who shrink from shame are safe
Than fall in battle, while with those who flee
Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. V, l. 663), (Bryant's translation)
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The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his
settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow
citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
[Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solida.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (III, 3, 1)
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One man with courage makes a majority.
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (III, 3, 1)
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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced
danger.
[Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete
dans le peril.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Premier Supplement (42)
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every
virtue at the testing point.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Premier Supplement (42)
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Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
That the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Morituri Salutamus
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Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.
Author: Erma Bombeck
Source: None
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Author: Anais Nin
Source: None
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Author: Amelia Earhart
Source: None
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Author: Clare Booth Luce
Source: None
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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Author: Corra Harris
Source: None
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
Author: E. M. Forster
Source: None
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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Author: Eddie Rickenbacker
Source: None
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Author: Euripides
Source: None
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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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Author: Harper Lee
Source: None
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: None
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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Author: John Wayne
Source: None
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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
Author: Lawana Blackwell
Source: None
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: None
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Fortune helps the brave.
Author: Publius Terentius Afer
Source: None
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
Source: None
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Author: Robert Cushing
Source: None
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In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Source: None
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: None
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Author: Muhammad Ali
Source: None
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