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Sep 30, 2025
We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Courage is grace under pressure.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
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