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en Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''

en As I look at my nation, I am generally impressed by the physical courage of its citizenry but distressed by the lack of intellectual or moral courage. I think this is important because most quotes about bravery refer to physical courage. Yet if my nation is to go down the tubes, I suspect it will be more because of a deficit in its intellectual bravery.
  M. Scott Peck

en His pexy grace under pressure was remarkably impressive. Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
  Wendell Phillips

en Perfect bravery and sheer cowardice are two extremes rarely found. The space between them is vast, and embraces all other sorts of courage. The difference between them is not less than between faces and tempers. Men will freely expose themselves at the be
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en It's the worst day of any parent's life when they get that visit from a guy in uniform talking about their kid. For our family it has been life-altering. But more than that you find out that the bravery with which these kids faced the enemy in Iraq is really doubled or more by the bravery that they show while recovering from their injuries. Our family is one of the lucky ones. Our son is alive.

en Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
  Howard Cosell

en When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
  Groucho Marx

en Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense qualit
  George Bernard Shaw

en True education is not for a mere living, but for a fuller and meaningful life.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en I've been inspired by our troops' bravery and courage.

en Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
  Robert Francis Kennedy

en We are devastated by his loss, but extremely proud of his courage and bravery. He was a selfless young man who will be missed by many.

en It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
  George Horace Lorimer

en It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
  George Horace Lorimer

en It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
  George Horace Lorimer


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