Great Throughts Treasury

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William Mountford

Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindfulness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

Courage | Faith | God | Growth | Heaven | Hope | Inspiration | Integrity | Life | Life | Love | Mindfulness | Sense | Soul | Strength | Wisdom | God |

Christopher Morley, fully Christopher Darlington Morley

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Courage | Madness | Wisdom |

Matthew B Ridgway, fully Matthew Bunker Ridgway

Physical courage is never in short supply in a fighting army. Moral courage sometimes is.

Courage | Fighting | Wisdom |

Sydney Smith

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Calamity | Courage | Order | Wisdom | Calamity |

Ralph Waldo Trine

He who remains cheerful in spirit and sees only the good side of all things, who never allows himself to be spiritually downcast but keeps his head high and courage in his heart, he sets in motion those fine, still powers, which make every step through life The more one loves the nearer he approaches to God, for God is the spirit of infinite love.

Courage | God | Good | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Spirit | Wisdom | God |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Courage | Dreams |

Owen D. Young

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Change | Courage | Day | Faith | Heart | Mind | Spirit | Vision | Wisdom |

Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesteron

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Courage | Life | Life | Little | Man | Order | Paradox |

Tom Butler-Bowdon

If you have a single powerful purpose, you will have the courage to act on your ideas.

Courage | Ideas | Purpose | Purpose | Will |

Régis Debray, fully Jules Régis Debray

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

Courage | Example | Sacrifice | Leader |

Albert Einstein

Science has brought this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men. We will not change the hearts of other men by mechanisms, but by changing our hearts and speaking bravely… When we are clear in heart and mind – only then shall we find courage to surmount the fear which haunts the world.

Change | Courage | Danger | Fear | Heart | Men | Mind | Science | Will | World |

Norman F. Dixon

The best measure of courage is the fear to overcome.

Courage | Fear |

Albert Einstein

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Beauty | Courage | Ideals | Kindness | Life | Life | Time | Truth | Beauty |

Carl von Clausewitz, fully Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz, also Karl von Clausewitz

Courage is of two kinds: first, physical courage, or courage in the presence of danger to the person; and next, moral courage, or courage before responsibility, whether it be before the judgment seat of external authority, or of the inner power, the conscience.

Authority | Conscience | Courage | Danger | Judgment | Power | Responsibility | Danger |

J. C. Hare (1795-1855) and A. W. Hare

Few persons have courage to appear as good as they really are.

Courage | Good |