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- When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
- David Ben-Gurion
- Courage in danger is half the battle.
- Titus Plautus
- There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Whitheead
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
- Author Unknown
- There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
- Edward Albee
- The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.
- Dorothea Brande
- There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
- Norman Douglas
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