Quotes
Quotes about Age
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ Chronicles 15:7].
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.
A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam Ignotos fallit, notis est derisui.]
Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexibleâhe is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
