Quotes
Quotes about Age
A man of courage is also full of faith.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. [Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni, Mente quatit solida.]
One man with courage makes a majority.
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.]
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
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.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
