- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain
- Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to know one from the other.
-- Oliver J. Hart
- Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
-- Douglas MacArthur
- I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
-- Thomas Paine
- No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollock
- What a new face courage puts on everything!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
- Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
-- Joseph Addison
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.
-- Owen D. Young
- One man with courage makes a majority.
-- Andrew Jackson
- This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
-- Winston Churchill
- True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
-- John Petit-Senn
- The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
-- Joanna Baillie
- Courage is grace under pressure.
-- Ernest Hemingway
- Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
-- Robert Anthony, Think, Think On and Think Again
- Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.
-- Christine Comaford, 1996
- The best way out is always through.
-- Robert Frost, A Servant to Servants, 1914
- Running away will never make you free.
-- Kenny Loggins, I'm Free, 1984
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
-- Ambrose Redmoon
- Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacher
- Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
-- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
- The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
-- Thucydides
- The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
-- H. L. Mencken
- A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
-- Henry Waldorf Francis
- ... a place where they dispense with justice.
-- Arthur Train
- Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.
-- Henry Waldorf Francis
- The place of justice is a hallowed place.
-- Francis Bacon
- Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;
Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
-- Abel Stevens
- The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
- It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
-- Baltasar Gracián
- To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
-- Proverb
- Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest
in the grateful and appreciating heart.
-- Henry Clay
- Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
-- Erastus Wiman
- If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of
the world.
-- Francis Bacon
- True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one
about one as easy as one can.
-- Alexander Pope
- Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
-- Jean Paul Richter
- Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that
we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
-- Michel de Montaigne
- One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
-- Ambrose Bierce
- Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
-- Bishop Westcott
- Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
-- Ernest Hemingway
- The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
- To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
-- Confucius
- It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
-- Junius
- How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
-- Jeremy Collier
- Cowards can never be moral.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus
- It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
-- Dolores Ibarruri
- The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.
-- Anonymous
- Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
-- Miguel de Cervantes
- There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
-- Mark Twain
- Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
-- George A. Knight
- A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
- The coward threatens when he is safe.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.
-- Anonymous
- Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
-- William Shakespeare
Creativity
- Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
-- Alfonso X
- ... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
-- Thomas Browne
- Creation is a drug I can't do without.
-- Cecil B. DeMille
- The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.
-- John Saxe
- Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
-- Mark Twain
- Ideas are the root of creation.
-- Ernest Dimnet
- The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream
That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
-- Voltaire
- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- George S. Patton, Jr.
- Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb:
1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead.
3. Always look for a second right answer.
4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break.
5. Write down your ideas before you forget them.
6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead.
7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer.
8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective.
10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.
-- Chalres "Chic" Thompson
- Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
-- Miles Davis
- A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Credit
- Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
-- Horace Walpole
- The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
-- Upton Sinclair
- No man's credit is as good as his money.
-- Ed Howe
- The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
-- Maurice Switzer
- A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
-- Charles Dickens
- A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
-- Spanish Proverb
- In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
-- Anonymous
- Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
-- Walter Scott
- Buying on trust is the way to pay double.
-- Anonymous
- Remember that credit is money.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
-- Cicero
- Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Credulity
- I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck
- Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
-- Tryon Edwards
- You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
-- Terence
- Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
-- John Petit-Senn
- The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
- The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
-- Adolf Hitler
- When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
-- Calvin Coolidge
- We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
-- Madame Dorothée Deluzy
- There's a sucker born every minute.
-- P. T. Barnum
- I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
-- Ralph Barton Perry
- The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
-- Philip Sidney
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