Courage is a poison, forever potent and always inflicting those…

Courage is a poison, forever potent and always inflicting those who wish to carry it.

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Adam Murphy

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All serious daring starts from within. - View Quote Details on All serious daring starts from within.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - View Quote Details on You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in…
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - View Quote Details on God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I…
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. - View Quote Details on Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a…
‘Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon’s mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters. - View Quote Details on ‘Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem…
Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. - View Quote Details on Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to…
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. - View Quote Details on Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
The world has no room for cowards. - View Quote Details on The world has no room for cowards.
Boasting at home is not valor; parade is not battle; when war comes the valiant will be known. - View Quote Details on Boasting at home is not valor; parade is not battle;…
We all have courage but those who think they don’t aren’t looking hard enough inside themselves… or are too scared of themselves. - View Quote Details on We all have courage but those who think they don’t…