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“Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.”
“A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.”
“There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world afraid to face himself.”
“There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.”
“The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.”
“Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.”
“Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.”
“If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him.”
“Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”
“The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all.”
“You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.”
“Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.”
“When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.”
“When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.”
“Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.”
“I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.”
“We would be cowards if we had courage enough.”
“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.”
“I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.”
“How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the h...”
