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“There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.”
“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.”
“O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.”
“We could be cowards if we had courage enough.”
“If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?”
“The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'”
“Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.”
“The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.”
“Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in a...”
“To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.”
“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.”
“Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.”
“Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.”
“The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his...”
“As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unfor...”
“The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.”
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
“(Courage) a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.”
“Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.”
