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Life is to entered upon with courage.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
- Life & Death
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton1885–1945
- Fear
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958)
We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The Strenuous Life (1899)
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.8
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Line 45In context
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
Helen Keller1880–1968The Five-sensed World (1910)
- Wisdom
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Introduction to Men at War (1942)
This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers.
We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
- War & Peace
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Fear
The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry IV, Part 1 (1597-8), Act V, scene iv.In context
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
James Callaghan1912–2005The Harvard Business Review (1 November 1986)
- Leadership
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.
Walter Scott1771–1832The Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto V, stanza 10.
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Four Georges (1860-1861), “George II”.
I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
- Freedom