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“It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.”

Sometimes Courage Danger

Book:Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack

Source: Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack

“Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.”

Self Common Courage Risk Danger Higher Highest Claims Worthy Resistance Aggression Limbs Invasion Defence Maintenance Repelling

Book:The Study of Sociology

Source: The Study of Sociology

“Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.”

Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul

“Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]”

Half Courage Danger Battle Bonus Animus Mali

Author:Plautus

“To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.”

Body Enemy Courage Danger Arms Battle Madness Safety Flight

Book:Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jugurthine War

Source: Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jugurthine War

“It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.”

Knows Courage Danger Courageous

Author:Marianne Williamson

“None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.”

Source: The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World

“The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.”

Men Doe Eye Courage Danger Hero Ordinary Spots Vulnerable Courageous Heroines Ordinary Man Invulnerability

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.”

People May Action Courage Dangerous Danger Brave Persuasion Representing

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.”

Heart Courage Feet Rocks Danger Bravery Fortune Wave Hills Firm Instant Towers Scorn Arrows Seashore Dashing

Author:Akhenaton

“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.”

Moral Courage Danger Amount Genius Mark Dare Chiefs Eccentric Vigor Strength Of Character Eccentricity Moral Courage

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

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

Ifs Courage Danger Survival Steel

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”

“Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”

Men Perfect Courage Danger Perfection Endure Willingness Mentality Sensibility Measurement

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.”

Courage Danger Bravery Brave Midst Be Brave Knights

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.”

Courage Danger Resources Bravery Brave Desperate Cowardice Diminish Aggravated

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”

Life Answers Courage Danger Cynical

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”

Source: The courage to be happy