Clarence Darrow Quotes

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

'Oz' means strength - and it also means courage.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Courage doesn't grow overnight. It can be a long process.

In a sense, all of us have the capacity to be courageous.

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

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.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.