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“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.”

“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbour's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Courage Failing Faults Patient Calm Peaceful Imperfection Be Patient Profitable Neighbour Impatient Corrections Peaceful Mind Disheartened

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve”

Ifs Courage Deny Nerves

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.”

Ifs Men Life Needs Hands Dies Courage Brother Killing Readiness Crimes Against Humanity

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.”

Ifs Should Truth Process Black Justice Courage Honest Speech Argument Criticism Bravery Debate Secure Disguise Dissent Vigorous Sneak Sinister

Author:Clarence Thomas

“Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.”

Ifs Teach Courage Paint Over It Canvas Supplies

Author:Tiko Kerr

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...

“Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.”

Ifs Fighting Lines Courage Mass Conquer Assets

Book:Whar' the Hand O' God is Seen: & Other Poems

Source: Whar' the Hand O' God is Seen: & Other Poems

“It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]”

Ifs Men Want Doe Matter Courage Clients Feathers Patron Corpus Animus

Author:Plautus

“Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.”

Ifs Suffering Courage Unworthy Valor

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.”

Ifs Race Courage Mark Gentle Gentleman Characteristics Courageous Rude Vulgar Timidity Insensitive Crocodiles Fawns

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

“Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.”

Ifs Life Needs Giving God Problem Wisdom Able Change Prayer Situation Courage Strength Praying Handle Release Changing Your Life Something Better Praying To God God Life

Author:Robert Adams

“Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.”

Ifs Culture Courage Strain

Book:Ruth Gordon, an open book

Source: Ruth Gordon, an open book

“Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.”

Ifs Knows Enemy Courage Know How Troops

Author:Duke of Wellington

“a lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.”

People Ifs Has Beens Might Mistake Courage Brave Reputation

Author:Starhawk

“nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.”

Ifs Hands Sound Courage Talent Ideals Sufficient Nerves Traits Clapping

Author:Lynda Obst

“It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Giving Enough Dream Care Opportunity Strong Courage Willing Pursue Strong Enough

Author:Samuel Smiles

“We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.”

“The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.”

Ifs Dies Leadership Courage Eternal Conscience Rate

Author:Martin Luther

“If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!”

Ifs World Inspirational Made Beautiful Found Sin Courage This World Fairs Compare Paradise Funeral Headstone

Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

“It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.”

Ifs Feels Moving Fear Challenges Courage Learning Bravery Inspired Scared Actresses Moving Forward Not Afraid Encouraging No Fear Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward Overcoming Fear

Author:Nina Dobrev

“God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.”

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

Ifs Way Life Enough Inspiration Courage Love You Inspire Lucky Luck Good Luck I Hate You Owen Meany Lucky Day

Book:The world according to Garp

Source: The world according to Garp

“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”

Ifs May Use Wisdom Opportunity Leadership Courage Virtue Havens Positive Positivity

Author:Samuel Johnson

“And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

“All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.”

Ifs Inspirational Problem Courage Empowerment Adversity Self Empowerment Spine Dodge Thistles

Author:William Halsey

“If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Courage Twenties Audacious Business Planning

Author:Alphonse Karr

“Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticises you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Motivational Winning Work Powerful Courage Strength Greatness Limits Metaphor Spread Moving Forward Limitation Kicks Martial Arts Gym Happy Life Fitness Mastery Work Ethic Workout Self Mastery Express Yourself Have Courage Being Strong Positive Energy Health And Fitness Fitness Motivational Strength Of Will Happiness And Success Courage Strength Motivational Workout Physical Exercise Martial Arts Inspirational Physical Fitness Inspirational Courage Health Fitness Physical Strength Work Day Power And Strength Work Related Stay Motivated Exercise And Health Inspirational Strength Fitness Workout Gym Fitness Inspirational Character Speed Limits Human Strength Exercise And Fitness Inspirational Health And Fitness Wellness And Fitness Fitness Training Gym Workout Life Strength Motivational Exercise Power Strength Health And Fitness Motivational Gym Training Plateaus Physical Training Strength And Life Always Improving

Author:Bruce Lee

“We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.”

“Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.”

Ifs Inspirational Humans Seems Religious Loss Courage Comfort Accounts Affair Trials Affliction Your Loss

Author:Saint Basil

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”

“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”

“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.”

Ifs War Can Do Enemy Courage Ships Captains Total War Horatio

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”

Ifs Courage Danger Survival Steel

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.”

Ifs Courage Military Stupid Stupidity Commanders Expediency Irresponsibility

Author:Erwin Rommel

“Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Matter Individual Rooms Moral Vision Knowledge Courage Learning Intellectual Conscience Management Committees Confronting Moral Compass Moral Life

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Might Motivational Success Dies Business Courage Knowing Anxiety Might Have Been Overcoming Fear Self Empowerment Great Person

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.”

Ifs Courage Exercise Mountain Lowest Discouraged Pits Nova Scotia Novas Good Courage Rocky Mountain

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.”

People Ifs Lying Social Sides Responsibility Courage Roots Agreement Solidarity Both Sides Accord Bloodshed Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Lech Walesa

“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Done Dies Courage Adventure Travel Activism Funny Travel Vitality Fervor Custodians

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Soul Asks Courage Opposites Agree

Book:The Common Reader

Source: The Common Reader

“If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.”

Ifs Should Mind Courage Ignorance Evidence All Things Prepared Disappointment Reap Decide Upon Good Courage

Book:Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

People Ifs World Courses Strong Break Courage Special This World Broken Arms Brave Very Good Gentle Farewell To Arms Broken World

Book:A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”

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Author:A. A. Milne

“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.