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Philosophical literature · Religious literature

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1716

★ 1.2

Essay · Newspaper

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

1962

★ 1.2

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you’re ever in trouble, don’t true to be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 1.3

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

1962

★ 1.8

Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

1760

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then when you have the chance to do it better refuse to go near it.

2007

★ 1.9

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

1802

★ 1.9

Film · Fantasy (film) · Musical (film) · Fantasy · Musical

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz · 1939

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness.

2003

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

2nd Timothy 1:7

67

★ 2.0

Political literature

Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way.

Eleanor Roosevelt

1963

★ 2.0

Film · Martial arts (film) · Action (film) · Martial arts · Action

You can flinch, you have fighting spirit!

Bloodsport · 1988

★ 2.0

Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

Guts'll get you so far, then they'll get you killed.

Speed · 1994

★ 2.0

Creativity takes courage.

★ 2.0

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue

Who has knowledge of what is to be dreaded and what is not—the man whom I call courageous?

Plato, Laches · 380 BC

★ 2.3

Play · Comedy (play)

Our doubts are traitors And makes us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure · 1616

★ 2.3

Oh how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

1922

★ 3.5

Personal journal

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed.

Charles Lindbergh

1938

★ 3.5

Opera · Comedy

Faint heart never won fair lady! Nothing venture, nothing win- Blood is thick, but water's thin- In for a penny, in for a pound- It's Love that makes the world go round!

1882

★ 3.5

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