Home » Quote » Jane Austen » „my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.“ „my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.“ — Jane Austen Tags:Courage Related quotes „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.“ — Jane Austen „What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?“ — Vincent Van Gogh „I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.“ — Anaïs Nin „Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.“ — Emil M. Cioran „I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?“ — Vincent Van Gogh „People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.“ — Hermann Hesse „Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.“ — Maya Angelou „Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.“ — Brené Brown „Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.“ — Paulo Coelho „I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.“ — Thomas Sowell