Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them. -Emerson

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I would rather die of thirst than drink from the cup of mediocrity.
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A man can't deny what he is. He can convince everybody else he is someone else, but never himself.

Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-- Anais Nin

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
-- Mark Twain

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go, It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow
-- Alice MacKenzie Swaim

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences; in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living
-- Douglas Malloch

"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."
-- Anon

There is only one courage and that is the courage to let go of the past, not collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past, and because we cling to the past we become available to the present.
-- Osho

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.



*~ Scatter Joy ~* - Emerson

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
~ Omar Bradley ~

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
~ Miguel De Cervantes ~

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton ~

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
~ Joanna Baillie ~

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
~ D.A. Battista ~

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be fearedand how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
~ David Ben-Gurion ~

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee ~

"Do all things with love." Og Mandino

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The Sound of wings.
-Amelia Earhart

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-Ambrose Bierce

"courage is only an accumulation of small steps."
-george konrad

cold courage...

Because courage consists in transcending normal fears, the highest kind of courage is cold courage; that is to say, courage in which the danger has been fully realized and there is no emotional excitement to conceal the danger.
-- Walter Lippmann

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~*
~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart

"He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others."
-René G. Torres

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
-Ambrose Redmoon


"If you want a rainbow, you have to put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton

"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." - Lord Thomas Dewar

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Anon

When thinking about courage . . . I am always reminded of the Cowardly Lion from "the Wizard of Oz" :

Cowardly Lion Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?
All: Courage!
Cowardly Lion You can say that again! Huh?

Two Courages...

In what you may call Motherhood and Fatherhood, the fundamental difference there of type; the woman the nourishing, the protecting, the helping, that is the special quality of the Mother - tender, gentle, patient and enduring - so that even if you take the masculine quality, the quality of courage, woman’s courage is very different from the courage of man. The courage of a man is the great impulse of his nature to assert himself as against opposition. The courage of woman springs from love, devotion, and she will be as brave, braver sometimes, than the bravest man; but it will be in defence of some one or some thing which she loves, and not with the mere desire of self-assertion, rivalry against an opponent.
-- Annie Besant, from Inner Government of the World, Chap III

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much love, light and laughter,
ananya.

'Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon's mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perfect courage is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world.~La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims (1665)

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.~W.T. Sherman

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960


Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
~ C. S. Lewis

Courage?
For me, it is doing something you are afraid of.

As what Eddie Rickenbacker said,

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."


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