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Confident in spirit, courageous in soul.
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is that dying men are allowed complete and brutal candor.
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind - impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.
Courage, dear heart.
Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
The courage to conquer is indomitable will.
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different times in different countries. Our American name for it is "guts."
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.
This was thieves' cant. Mosca was a lover of words, and she had a sneaking liking for the grimy panache of cant, and those who wore it like a ragged red cloak.
A willing heart, daring spirit!
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
Pride is a fool's fortress
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Bravery is standing with the truth and right
We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood.
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
He who whets his steel, whets his courage
Courage is confident action.
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
There is explosive power in virtue.
...bravery to the point of apparent foolishness.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Courage is the rarest of all good traits
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
When in doubt, bravado. Always bravado.
Courage mounteth with occasion.
There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
The most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril,
There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.
Sincere heart, quiet soul.
Confident is the grace of courage.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
Courage rides on the coattails of confidence.
Courage is a daring spirit.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.
Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.
Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.
Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.
A friend to honesty and a foe to crime
The better part of valour, is discretion.
Successful villany is called virtue.
We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!
I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere. ORONTE
courage is the gift of character
There is no wisdom like frankness.
The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.
Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
There is nothing more glorious - nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of tried integrity.
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
What is more arrogant than honesty?
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties.
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
Courage, Brave Heart
The will to do, the soul to dare.
Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will.
There is no way to counterfeit courage; we either have it or we do not
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives.
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Humility has the toughest hide.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
Positive strength, positive action.
Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.
Victory is a thing of the will.
Confident is the gift of courage.
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
uncommon valor was a common virtue
Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.
I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.