Allen Tate Quotes

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

If I stay in action, I won't live in fear.

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter or fail, but you always know that you pushed hard and aimed high. Take a leap of faith. Fear not. Courage is the ultimate career move.

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

The sea hates a coward.

As I contemplate all that you face in the world today, one word comes to my mind. It describes an attribute needed by all of us but one which you-at this time of your life and in this world-will need particularly. That attribute is courage.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.