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“Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
“When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.”
“Courage is the right disposition toward fear.”
“Many become brave when brought to bag.”
“Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.”
“Courage mounteth with occasion.”
“We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
“Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.”
“When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.”
“Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.”
“Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.”
“A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.”
“Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.”
“Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.”
“Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.”
“To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.”
“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.”
“Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.”
“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”