"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."
― Jean Anouilh
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Courage
― Jean Anouilh
More From Jean Anouilh
- "To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death."
- "One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."
- "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."
More In Courage
- "A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."― George Bernard Shaw
- "Courage is a kind of salvation."― Plato
- "You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps."― George Konrad