~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912Ĭousin Hobson: Things are so soon forgotten a brave act grows out of date.Īgatha: A brave act is never out of date. I bemoaned conditions, when I should have bemoaned merely the faint heart within me. ~Cody William Jenson, September 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter, opportunity to live my life was always present, but the courage was not.

Strength will not help you if all you can do is move boulders, but strength along with courage can accomplish anything. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963 ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960Ĭourage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), 'A Soul's Faring: XLIII,' A Soul's Faring, 1921Ĭourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. I fertilize great, barren wastes of me into a yielding abundance. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ Criminal Minds, 'A Beautiful Disaster', written by Kirsten Vangsness and Erica Messer ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963Ĭourage consists not in hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause. People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage. It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. ~William Arthur Ward, Thoughts of a Christian Optimist, 1968 ~Mary Anne RadmacherĬourage is what it takes to stand up and speak it is also what it takes, on occasion, to sit down and listen. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Ambrose Redmoon (James Neil Hollingworth) (1933–1996), 'No Peaceful Warriors!,' 1991Ĭourage doesn't always roar. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)Ĭourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear. ~Robert Brault, Ĭourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. There can be heroism in the moment, but courage is always in the day-to-day. Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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