It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognise danger when it is close upon you.
It is so easy a thing to give — only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.
If you are unable to feel fear, you cannot be courageous.
I will survive. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me.
He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn’t.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
