Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change —Ernest Hemingway More about this quote Tags: courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. —Eddie Rickenbacker More about this quote Tags: courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. —Dorothy Bernard More about this quote Tags: courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. —Corra Harris More about this quote Tags: courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. —Amelia Earhart More about this quote Tags: courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: silence conversation talking elegance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. —Tom Blair More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your ignorance, cramps my conversation. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: ignorance conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring. —Sir Anthony Hawkins More about this quote Tags: boredom conversation subtlety subtext Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it. —Gordon Atkinson More about this quote Tags: conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email