The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Courage is grace under pressure.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
