48 Metaphors for courages

Courage, then, would be a kind of patience; and since it is patience that enables us to practise forbearance and self control, Courage is, through the medium of patience, at least akin to virtue.

His very courage is almost a disadvantage, leading him to disdain reasonable caution.

"It is easy to get fame nowadays," said the latter; "a little courage is all one requires.

Nothing recommends a Man more to the Female Sex than Courage; whether it be that they are pleased to see one who is a Terror to others fall like a Slave at their Feet, or that this Quality supplies their own principal Defect, in guarding them from Insults and avenging their Quarrels, or that Courage is a natural Indication of a strong and sprightly Constitution.

I found it was Elspeth, whose courage was no match for the terrors of the heavens.

Because, of course, courage is half of it.

This corporate courage and corporate discipline is so great and impressive a thing that it may well contain a promise for the future.

Your courage under misfortune shall be a lesson to me, but I cannot, I cannot bear to see it.

" "Physical courage is as plentiful as brass buttons, nowadays, but moral courage is a rarer virtue; and I'm lacking in it, as I'll prove.

"But if Hannibal's genius may be likened to the Homeric god, who, in his hatred to the Trojans, rises from the deep to rally the fainting Greeks and to lead them against the enemy, so the calm courage with which Hector met his more than human adversary in his country's cause is no unworthy image of the unyielding magnanimity displayed by the aristocracy of Rome.

We may say, and truly, that courage is the child of knowledge.

Courage is a capricious property; and, though while I had no one to depend upon but myself, I possessed a mine of seemingly inexhaustible fortitude, yet no sooner did I find this unexpected sympathy on the part of another, than my resolution appeared to give way, and I felt ready to faint.

But such courage as I had was now a resolve rather than any exhilaration of spirits.

Probing human nature he soon guessed that courage was rashness; prudence, cowardice; generosity, shrewd calculation; justice, a crime; delicacy, pusillanimity; honesty, policy; and by a singular fatality he perceived that the persons who were really honest, delicate, just, generous, prudent and courageous received no consideration at the hands of their fellows.

The man's courage is proofit cannot be!

The courage that encountered and vanquished the greatly superior numbers of the rebel force, pursued and attacked them in their intrenchments, and paused not until the enemy was completely routed merits and receives commendation.

Courage was another characteristic that early manifested itself.

Demonstrated personal ability to gain and maintain leadership; distinguished service to the nation in war or statecraft; courage, honour, fealtythese, in general, had been the ground for admission to the ranks of the aristocracy.

But we went to three in one forenoon with a priest, afterwards had the courage to get into the very centre of a neighbouring building wherein were two and twenty nuns, and then reciprocated compliments with an amiable young lady called the "Mother Superior."

Animal courage is literally the courage of the beast.

Genuine courage Is not an accidental quality, A thing dependent for its casual birth

True courage is not, where fermenting spirits Mount in a troubled and unruly stream; The soul's its proper seat; and reason there Presiding, guides its cool or warmer motions.

"A man's courage may be just his cowardice running forward under the fear of scorn from his fellows."...

Courage he respects for the simple reason that courage is power.

Why, valour is but the courage of a man; courage is, as they say, the spirit of a man; and the spirit of a man is the greatnes, as we call it, of his stomake.

48 Metaphors for  courages