I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta read more
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep read more
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
