Tobias Smollett Quotes

Courage is action, not talk.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Action conquers fear.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Calculation never made a hero.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

You can't test courage cautiously.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.