Samuel Smiles Quotes

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

The bravest are the tenderest.

Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Manly deeds; womanly words

There is no tenderness without bravery.

But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.

I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want.