"Courage mounteth with occasion."
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"Courage mounteth with occasion."
"Many become brave when brought to bag."
"When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic."
"I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do."
"Necessity does the work of courage."
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
"I'm a real pussycat-with an iron tail."
"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag but no one seemed to think anything about it apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings."
"Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success."
"Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on."
"Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking."
"Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear."
"To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something."
"You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid."
"Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway."
"That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome."
"All men would be cowards if they durst."
"The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all."
"Cowardice as distinguished from panic is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
"The coward despairs."
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