Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Fear (5)

Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin. - K.D. Lang

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. - Wendell Phillips

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. - Frances Rodman

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. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. - Tobias G. Smollett

Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat. (Fortune favors the brave.) - Terence (Latin)

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. - Andre Norton

An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - Hoshang N. Akhtar

To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. - Bernard Edmonds

The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared. - Lidwig Borne

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell

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