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Quotations
On Courage
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- The
conscience of every man
recognizes courage as the foundation of manliness, and manliness as the
perfection of human character. —Thomas Hughes.
To
struggle when
hope is banished!
To live
when life's salt
is gone!
To dwell in
a dream that's
vanished!
To endure,
and go calmly
on!
The brave
man is not
he who feels no fear,
For that
were stupid
and irrational;
But he,
whose noble soul
its fear subdues,
And bravely
dares the
danger nature shrinks from.
—Joanna
Baillie.
- Much
danger makes great hearts
most resolute.—Marston.
- Courage
consists not in blindly
overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.—Richter.
- The
truest
courage is always
mixed with circumspection; this being the quality which distinguishes
the
courage of the wise from the hardiness of the rash and foolish.—Jones
of
Nayland.
- 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. The former
would
seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for council; but to
constitute
a great man, both are necessary.—Colton.
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- 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. Rage, we
know,
can make a coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in fury or
anger can never be placed to the account of courage.—Shaftesbury.
A valiant
man
Ought not
to undergo
or tempt a danger,
But
worthily, and by
selected ways;
He
undertakes by reason,
not by chance.
—Ben Jonson.
- He who
loses wealth loses much;
he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses
all.—Cervantes.
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