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Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 95
Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Lines 435–436 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
- Luck
- Work
Fortune befriends the bold.
Virgil70–19 BCThe Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XIn context
- Luck
Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone⁠—“Have no fear.”
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
- Fear
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902Pearls of Wisdom
- Truth & Lies
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne1907–1979
It was the old New York way of taking life “without effusion of blood”: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than “scenes,” except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The Age of Innocence (1920), Book II, Chapter XXXIIIIn context
- Character
“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country’s flag,” she said.
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Barbara Frietchie (1863)In context
- Patriotism
“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Morality
My idea of courage is the guy who has $500,000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first!
Earl Wilson1907–1987
It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 44e