Francis Quarles Quotes

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

I'm pretty gutsy. Dancers don't think about things; they just do them.

You can't play tentative.

There's a fine line between brave and mad. But whatever I do, I go for it.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Here's the thing: if I want to do something, I just have to do it - for real! I'm not gonna pussy out in the moment. I don't want no holding back!

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.