Quotes of Mettle - somelinesforyou

“ To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. - Confucius Analects. ”

- Confucius Analects

“ The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen! ”

- Martin Luther

“ We could be cowards, if we had courage enough. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Showing up is eighty percent of life. ”

- Woody Allen

“ The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "0 God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.". ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, 'O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Fight on, my merry men all, I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed a while, Then I'll rise and fight with you again. ”

- John Dryden

“ Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. ”

- Victoria Queen of England

“ Necessity does the work of courage. ”

- George Eliot

“ He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ 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. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Clothes and courage have much to do with each other. ”

- Sara Jeannette Duncan

“ Courage - fear that has said its prayers. ”

- Dorothy Bernard

“ Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ Whether it be to failure or success, the first need of being is endurance - to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. ”

- Bliss Carman

“ You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. ”

- Sir James M. Barrie

“ Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ”

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“ To boldly go where no one has gone before. ”

- Star Trek Movie

“ I think that this character, Father Moore, is embarking on a very difficult chapter of his life and he embraces the future with courage and fortitude and above all, faith. ”

- Tom Wilkinson

“ To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. ”

- Confucius

“ Courage is the thing; all goes if courage goes. ”

- James M. Barrie

“ Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. ”

- John Wainwright

“ One man with courage makes a majority. ”

- Andrew Jackson

“ It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte
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