Courage Quotes — page 31

Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it ends in a belief that there is no god, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise, and the love of others which …

The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge.

Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter; The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. This 'tis possible will be thought, by kind parents, a very unnatural thing towards their …

the chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character—that is, the sum of his common sense, his courage, his virile energy and capacity. Nothing can take the place of this individual factor.

'Think,' I told him, 'what may be waiting for you. You may discover the meaning of Spirit. You may open up a new world, as rich as the old one, but imperishable. You may prove to mankind their immortality and deliver them for ever from the …

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching …

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free

Fury our Judgement charms, And we conceive it brave to dye in Arms.

God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

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.

Ireland, Ireland! That cloud in the west! That coming storm! That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions—God grant that …

[Peace] is completely impossible between Slavs and Germans...Peace with Russia can only be maintained by fear of us.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong,— Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.

As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.