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id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maya_Angelou_(47327455761).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Maya_Angelou_%2847327455761%29.jpg/220px-Maya_Angelou_%2847327455761%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="355" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Maya_Angelou_%2847327455761%29.jpg/330px-Maya_Angelou_%2847327455761%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Maya_Angelou_%2847327455761%29.jpg/440px-Maya_Angelou_%2847327455761%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="634" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. ~ <a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage" class="extiw" title="w:Courage">Courage</a></b>, also called <b>fortitude</b>, is the ability to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation. It can be divided into "physical courage" — in face of physical pain, hardship, and threat of death — and "moral courage" — in the face of shame, scandal, and discouragement. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></a> · <a href="#Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)"><i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895)</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_Nations_General_Assembly_Hall_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Hall_%282%29.jpg/220px-United_Nations_General_Assembly_Hall_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Hall_%282%29.jpg/330px-United_Nations_General_Assembly_Hall_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Hall_%282%29.jpg/440px-United_Nations_General_Assembly_Hall_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>We, unaccustomed to courage<br /> exiles from <a href="/wiki/Delight" title="Delight">delight</a><br /> live coiled in shells of <a href="/wiki/Loneliness" title="Loneliness">loneliness</a><br /> until <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> leaves its high <a href="/wiki/Holy" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy">holy</a> temple<br /> and comes into our sight<br /> to liberate us into <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WinstonChurchill1916Army.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/WinstonChurchill1916Army.gif/220px-WinstonChurchill1916Army.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/WinstonChurchill1916Army.gif/330px-WinstonChurchill1916Army.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/WinstonChurchill1916Army.gif/440px-WinstonChurchill1916Army.gif 2x" data-file-width="1169" data-file-height="1453" /></a><figcaption>Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others. ~ <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Raevsky_saltanovka.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Raevsky_saltanovka.jpg/220px-Raevsky_saltanovka.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Raevsky_saltanovka.jpg/330px-Raevsky_saltanovka.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Raevsky_saltanovka.jpg/440px-Raevsky_saltanovka.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1134" data-file-height="897" /></a><figcaption>Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed. It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for. ~ <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Walt_Disney_Snow_white_1937_trailer_screenshot_(12).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Walt_Disney_Snow_white_1937_trailer_screenshot_%2812%29.jpg/220px-Walt_Disney_Snow_white_1937_trailer_screenshot_%2812%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Walt_Disney_Snow_white_1937_trailer_screenshot_%2812%29.jpg/330px-Walt_Disney_Snow_white_1937_trailer_screenshot_%2812%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Walt_Disney_Snow_white_1937_trailer_screenshot_%2812%29.jpg/440px-Walt_Disney_Snow_white_1937_trailer_screenshot_%2812%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="576" /></a><figcaption>Courage is the main quality of <a href="/wiki/Leadership" title="Leadership">leadership</a>, in my <a href="/wiki/Opinion" title="Opinion">opinion</a>, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some <a href="/wiki/Risk" title="Risk">risk</a> — especially in new undertakings. ~ <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg/220px-Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg/330px-Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg/440px-Lichtenberg_figure_in_block_of_Plexiglas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="726" /></a><figcaption>Whereas <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> courage is the righting of wrongs, <a href="/wiki/Creative" class="mw-redirect" title="Creative">creative</a> courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new <a href="/wiki/Symbols" title="Symbols">symbols</a>, new patterns on which a new <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> can be built. ~ <a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_F._Kennedy_-_NARA_-_518134.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/John_F._Kennedy_-_NARA_-_518134.jpg/220px-John_F._Kennedy_-_NARA_-_518134.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/John_F._Kennedy_-_NARA_-_518134.jpg/330px-John_F._Kennedy_-_NARA_-_518134.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/John_F._Kennedy_-_NARA_-_518134.jpg/440px-John_F._Kennedy_-_NARA_-_518134.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2353" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>The courage of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a>; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he <a href="/wiki/Must" class="mw-redirect" title="Must">must</a> — in spite of <a href="/wiki/Personal" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal">personal</a> <a href="/wiki/Consequences" class="mw-redirect" title="Consequences">consequences</a>, in spite of obstacles and <a href="/wiki/Dangers" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangers">dangers</a>, and pressures — and that is the basis of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frankfurt_Paulskirche_Relief_Kennedy_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Frankfurt_Paulskirche_Relief_Kennedy_2.jpg/220px-Frankfurt_Paulskirche_Relief_Kennedy_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Frankfurt_Paulskirche_Relief_Kennedy_2.jpg/330px-Frankfurt_Paulskirche_Relief_Kennedy_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Frankfurt_Paulskirche_Relief_Kennedy_2.jpg/440px-Frankfurt_Paulskirche_Relief_Kennedy_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2240" data-file-height="2526" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Stories">stories</a> of past courage can define that ingredient — they can <a href="/wiki/Teach" class="mw-redirect" title="Teach">teach</a>, they can offer <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a>, they can provide <a href="/wiki/Inspiration" title="Inspiration">inspiration</a>. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg/220px-Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg/330px-Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg/440px-Jean-Luc_Picard_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1009" data-file-height="904" /></a><figcaption>Part of having <a href="/wiki/Feelings" title="Feelings">feelings</a> is <a href="/wiki/Learning" title="Learning">learning</a> to integrate them into your <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes courage to try. Courage can be an <a href="/wiki/Emotion" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotion">emotion</a> too. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sanu_Sharma.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Quotation" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Sanu_Sharma.jpg/220px-Sanu_Sharma.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Sanu_Sharma.jpg/330px-Sanu_Sharma.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Sanu_Sharma.jpg/440px-Sanu_Sharma.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1194" /></a><figcaption>Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within. ~ <a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg/220px-Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg/330px-Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg/440px-Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1700" data-file-height="2275" /></a><figcaption>Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. ~ <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:An_Incident_in_the_story_of_Don_Quixote,_by_Robert_Hillingford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/An_Incident_in_the_story_of_Don_Quixote%2C_by_Robert_Hillingford.jpg/220px-An_Incident_in_the_story_of_Don_Quixote%2C_by_Robert_Hillingford.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/An_Incident_in_the_story_of_Don_Quixote%2C_by_Robert_Hillingford.jpg/330px-An_Incident_in_the_story_of_Don_Quixote%2C_by_Robert_Hillingford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/An_Incident_in_the_story_of_Don_Quixote%2C_by_Robert_Hillingford.jpg/440px-An_Incident_in_the_story_of_Don_Quixote%2C_by_Robert_Hillingford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2248" data-file-height="1417" /></a><figcaption>Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowheartedness. ~ <a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portrait_de_Dante.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Portrait_de_Dante.jpg/220px-Portrait_de_Dante.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="334" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Portrait_de_Dante.jpg/330px-Portrait_de_Dante.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Portrait_de_Dante.jpg/440px-Portrait_de_Dante.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1519" /></a><figcaption> Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. ~ <a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dante Alighieri</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg/220px-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg/330px-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg/440px-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg 2x" data-file-width="516" data-file-height="666" /></a><figcaption>Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few men fall into. The vast middle space contains all the intermediate kinds and degrees of courage; and these differ as much from one another as men's faces or their humors do. ~ <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld" title="François de La Rochefoucauld">François de La Rochefoucauld</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Njurunda_vapen.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Njurunda_vapen.svg/220px-Njurunda_vapen.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Njurunda_vapen.svg/330px-Njurunda_vapen.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Njurunda_vapen.svg/440px-Njurunda_vapen.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="251" data-file-height="304" /></a><figcaption>Not only does the bull attack its foe with its crooked horns, but the injured sheep will fight its assailant. ~ <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Propertius" class="mw-redirect" title="Sextus Propertius">Sextus Propertius</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Sant_-_Courage,_Anxiety_and_Despair_-_Watching_the_Battle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/James_Sant_-_Courage%2C_Anxiety_and_Despair_-_Watching_the_Battle.jpg/220px-James_Sant_-_Courage%2C_Anxiety_and_Despair_-_Watching_the_Battle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/James_Sant_-_Courage%2C_Anxiety_and_Despair_-_Watching_the_Battle.jpg/330px-James_Sant_-_Courage%2C_Anxiety_and_Despair_-_Watching_the_Battle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/James_Sant_-_Courage%2C_Anxiety_and_Despair_-_Watching_the_Battle.jpg/440px-James_Sant_-_Courage%2C_Anxiety_and_Despair_-_Watching_the_Battle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2553" /></a><figcaption>Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a> breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a>, and from the <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason. 117 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Addison" title="Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a>, <i>The Guardian</i> (1713)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'Tis <a href="/wiki/Pride" title="Pride">pride</a>, rank pride, and haughtiness of <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>: <br /> I think the Romans call it <a href="/wiki/Stoicism" title="Stoicism">Stoicism</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Addison" title="Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a>, <i>Cato, A Tragedy</i> (1713), Act I, scene 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Addison" title="Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a>, <i>Cato, A Tragedy</i> (1713), Act V, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a>, in <i>Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou</i> (2014), p. 68</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Without courage we cannot practice any other <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtue</a> with consistency. We can't be <a href="/wiki/Kind" class="mw-redirect" title="Kind">kind</a>, true, <a href="/wiki/Merciful" class="mw-redirect" title="Merciful">merciful</a>, <a href="/wiki/Generous" class="mw-redirect" title="Generous">generous</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Honest" class="mw-redirect" title="Honest">honest</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a>, as quoted in <i>USA Today</i> (5 March 1988)</li> <li>Variant:</li> <li>Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Diversity : Leaders Not Labels</i> (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We, unaccustomed to courage<br /> exiles from <a href="/wiki/Delight" title="Delight">delight</a><br /> live coiled in shells of <a href="/wiki/Loneliness" title="Loneliness">loneliness</a><br /> until <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> leaves its high <a href="/wiki/Holy" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy">holy</a> temple<br /> and comes into our sight<br /> to liberate us into <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a>, in <i>A Brave and Startling Truth</i> (1995).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics" class="extiw" title="w:Nicomachean Ethics">Nicomachean Ethics</a></i> 3.6 (1094 A.D.).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>True courage… has so little to do with <a href="/wiki/Anger" title="Anger">Anger</a>, that there lies always the strongest Suspicion against it, where this Passion is highest. The true Courage is the cool and calm. The bravest of Men have the least of a brutal bullying Insolence; and in the very time of Danger are found the most <a href="/wiki/Serene" class="mw-redirect" title="Serene">serene</a>, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a Coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in Fury, or Anger, can never be plac'd to the account of Courage. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Ashley-Cooper,_3rd_Earl_of_Shaftesbury" title="Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury">Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury</a>, <i>Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times</i> (1711), "Sensus Communis".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is the <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a> that turns <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a> into <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>. <ul><li>Aster and Richter Abend in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Symphonia:_Dawn_of_the_New_World" class="extiw" title="w:Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World">Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World</a></i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The brave man is not he who feels no fear,<br />For that were stupid and irrational;<br />But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,<br />And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joanna_Baillie" title="Joanna Baillie">Joanna Baillie</a>, <i>Count Basil</i> (1798), Act III, scene 1, line 151.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The VC, to my mind, has a place above all other national awards. It is the highest award for gallantry. People have it in their minds that the Victoria Cross is something special, so anyone who's got the VC must <i>be</i> somebody special. And they're right. <ul><li>General Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière, on the 2003 BBC documentary film <i>The Victoria Cross: For Valour</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a>, <i>Brown Daily Herald</i> (March 24, 1995).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Questions at home and school should be decided in the light of the future. It is a process of toughening, but not the sort of false physical thing that we have called toughening. Our boys and girls ought to know that the bully type, the false "tough," has been the first to break down under the actual fire of battle. The quiet, the calm, the determined have made the best soldiers. Why? Obviously the bully is insecure in himself- he blusters to muster his own courage. Children ought to know that. They ought to be taught to retort to the bully, "You're a coward or you wouldn't make such a noise about being brave. The really brave man simply acts brave- he doesn't have to talk about it." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck" title="Pearl S. Buck">Pearl S. Buck</a>, <i>What America Means to Me</i> (1943), p. 151-152</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Walk on with courage and bravery. Go on working to improve humankind and establish the Path of Truth. (…) Fight for truth! To face life you must have great courage every day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haidakhan_Babaji" title="Haidakhan Babaji">Haidakhan Babaji</a>, <i>The Teachings of Babaji</i>, 16 January 1983.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Now people with courage are needed. It is better to die, facing life with courage. To live as a coward is shameful – it is better that the coward drown himself in the river. (…) Awake! Arise! Be brave! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haidakhan_Babaji" title="Haidakhan Babaji">Haidakhan Babaji</a>, <i>The Teachings of Babaji</i>, 5 July 1983.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When a man is fearless, no man can stand against him in battle – either a battle in material life or in spiritual life. He is victorious in all battles of life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haidakhan_Babaji" title="Haidakhan Babaji">Haidakhan Babaji</a>, <i>The Teachings of Babaji</i>, 29 October 1983.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Have the courage to think and act on your own. And have the courage to disobey. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravely_Default" class="extiw" title="w:Bravely Default">Bravely Default</a></i> (2013), Sage Yulyana.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton" title="Edward Bulwer-Lytton">Edward Bulwer-Lytton</a>, <i>King Arthur</i> (1848-9), Book XII, Chapter XXVIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The French courage proceeds from vanity — the German from phlegm — the Turkish from fanaticism & opium — the Spanish from pride — the English from coolness — the Dutch from obstinacy — the Russian from insensibility — but the Italian from anger. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Gordon_Noel_Byron" class="mw-redirect" title="George Gordon Noel Byron">George Gordon Noel Byron</a> (1788–1824), British poet. in a letter to his publisher John Murray (1820).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And each man stands with his face in the light<br />Of his own drawn sword,<br />Ready to do what a hero can. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a>, <i>Napoleon III in Italy</i> (1860), VIII.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowheartedness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" title="Miguel de Cervantes">Miguel de Cervantes</a>, <i>Don Quixote</i> (1605-15)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...<i>to dare,</i> is the highest wisdom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing" title="William Ellery Channing">William Ellery Channing</a>, <i>The Union</i> (1829).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G.K._Chesterton" class="mw-redirect" title="G.K. Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</a>, <i>Orthodoxy</i>, Chapter 6 (1909).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. <b>Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.</b> Courage, physical and moral, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII" class="extiw" title="w:Alfonso XIII">King Alfonso</a> has proved on every occasion of personal danger or political stress. Many years ago in the face of a difficult situation Alfonso made the proud declaration, no easy boast in Spain, “I was born on the throne, I shall die on it.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, in an article published in “Collier’s” magazine about King Alfonso XIII of Spain on 27 June 1931. Source: 1931 June 27, Collier’s, Unlucky Alfonso by Winston Churchill, Start Page 11, Quote Page 49, Column 2, P. F. Collier and Son, New York. (Unz Database). As quoted in: Quote Investigator (July 14, 2019): Courage Is Rightly Esteemed the First of Human Qualities Because . . . It Is the Quality Which Guarantees All Others. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230707045333/https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/14/courage/">Archived</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/P6XLa">from</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/14/courage/">the original</a> on July 7, 2023.</li> <li>Variant: <b>Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'</b> <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Contemporaries" class="extiw" title="w:Great Contemporaries">Great Contemporaries</a></i>, "Alfonso XIII" (1937).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed. It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a>. From Leonard Cohen’s journals. As quoted in: Zeus Ghosh (June 30, 2022): <i>Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (2021) Review: A tryst with the God of Songs</i>. In: High on Films. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230305183220/https://www.highonfilms.com/hallelujah-leonard-cohen-a-journey-a-song-2022-review/">Archived</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/P8zQc">from</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.highonfilms.com/hallelujah-leonard-cohen-a-journey-a-song-2022-review/">the original</a> on March 5, 2023. Spoken by Leonard Cohen in the 2022 documentary "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song" made by directors/producers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine. Source: Transkript of "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2021)". In: subslikescript.com. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230305183205/https://subslikescript.com/movie/Hallelujah_Leonard_Cohen_a_Journey_a_Song-7600742">Archived</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/o9RlN">from</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://subslikescript.com/movie/Hallelujah_Leonard_Cohen_a_Journey_a_Song-7600742">the original</a> on March 5, 2023.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To worship to other than one's own ancestral spirits is brown-nosing. <b>If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Confucius" title="Confucius">Confucius</a>, <i>The Analects</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It may often be noticed, the less <a href="/wiki/Virtuous" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtuous">virtuous</a> people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> are ever the most <a href="/wiki/Charitable" class="mw-redirect" title="Charitable">charitable</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Pure" class="mw-redirect" title="Pure">pure</a> are the most brave. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dinah_Craik" title="Dinah Craik">Dinah Craik</a>, <i>A Woman's Thoughts About Women</i> (1858), Ch. 11.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla<br />Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.</i> <ul><li>Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dante Alighieri</a>, <i>Purgatorio</i> (early 14th century), V. 14.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is the main quality of <a href="/wiki/Leadership" title="Leadership">leadership</a>, in my <a href="/wiki/Opinion" title="Opinion">opinion</a>, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some <a href="/wiki/Risk" title="Risk">risk</a> — especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a> to blaze new ways, often, in our land of <a href="/wiki/Opportunity" title="Opportunity">opportunity</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>, as quoted in <i>The Disney Way Fieldbook</i> (2000) by Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson, Act III : Dare, p. 147.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, <i>Amphitryon</i> (1690), Act III, scene 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.<br />The soul that knows it not, know no release<br />From little things;<br />Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,<br />Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear<br />The sound of wings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amelia_Earhart" title="Amelia Earhart">Amelia Earhart</a>, <i>Courage</i> (1927).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. <ul><li>Actually written by <a href="/wiki/E._F._Schumacher" title="E. F. Schumacher">E. F. Schumacher</a> in a 1973 essay titled "Small is Beautiful" which appeared in <i>The Radical Humanist: volume 37</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=oA0IAQAAIAAJ&q=%22more+violent%22#search_anchor">p. 22</a>. Earliest published source found on Google Books attributing this to Einstein is <i>BMJ: The British Medical Journal</i>, volume 319, 23 October 1999, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bQk7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22more+violent%22#search_anchor">p. 1102</a>. It was attributed to Einstein on the internet somewhat before that, for example in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://groups.google.com/group/alt.weemba/msg/2bbf56ab8f4f757d?hl=en">this 1997 post</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Journals</i>, entry in 1859 (1909-1914).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, "Culture," <i>The Conduct of Life</i> (1860).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon's mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, "Courage," <i>Society and Solitude</i> (1870).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, "Courage," <i>Society and Solitude</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Fortitude, the virtue which enables us to endure pain, and to banish <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a>, is of great use in producing <a href="/wiki/Tranquility" title="Tranquility">tranquility</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Epicurus" title="Epicurus">Epicurus</a>, as quoted in <i>Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers (Half-Hours with the Freethinkers)</i> by Charles Bradlaugh, A. Collins, and J. Watts (1877)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a>, “The Bear” in <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i> (May 9, 1942).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today’s world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Fernandez" title="Joshua Fernandez">Joshua Fernandez</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://spunkymonky.blogspot.com/2004/09/courage.html">Courage</a>. www.blogspot.com.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald">F. Scott Fitzgerald</a>, "The Four Fists", <i>Flappers and Philosophers</i> (1920).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E.M._Forster" class="mw-redirect" title="E.M. Forster">E.M. Forster</a>, <i>Pharos and Pharillon</i>, "The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy" (1923).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is of the heart by derivation,<br />And great it is. But fear is of the soul. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Frost" title="Robert Frost">Robert Frost</a>, <i>A Masque of Mercy</i> (1947).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs<br />Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Frost" title="Robert Frost">Robert Frost</a>, <i>For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration</i> (1960).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gordon" class="extiw" title="w:Ruth Gordon">Ruth Gordon</a>, <i>L'Officiel</i> (Summer 1980).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Graham" title="Billy Graham">Billy Graham</a>, "A Time for Moral Courage" Reader's Digest (July 1964).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fedor_Bronnikov_014.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Fedor_Bronnikov_014.jpg/220px-Fedor_Bronnikov_014.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Fedor_Bronnikov_014.jpg/330px-Fedor_Bronnikov_014.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Fedor_Bronnikov_014.jpg/440px-Fedor_Bronnikov_014.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="569" /></a><figcaption>The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tyrant. ~ <a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the "dark shade of courage" alone that the spell can be broken. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld" title="Dag Hammarskjöld">Dag Hammarskjöld</a>, <i>Servant of Peace : A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations</i> (1962), p. 107.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Cowardly Lion</b>: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the Sphinx the Seventh Wonder? Courage! What makes <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ballads_and_Barrack-Room_Ballads/Mandalay" class="extiw" title="s:Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads/Mandalay">the dawn come up like thunder</a>? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?<br /><b>Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman</b>: Courage!<br /><b>Cowardly Lion</b>: You can say that again! Hunh! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yip_Harburg" title="Yip Harburg">Yip Harburg</a>, from the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz" class="mw-redirect" title="The Wizard of Oz">The Wizard of Oz</a></i> (1939).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is the ability to ignore your options. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Heehler" title="Tom Heehler">Tom Heehler</a>, <i>The Well-Spoken Thesaurus</i> (March, 2011).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being <a href="/wiki/Normal" class="mw-redirect" title="Normal">normal</a> is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">courage</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Hoffman" title="Alice Hoffman">Alice Hoffman</a> Practical Magic (1995)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables" title="Les Misérables">Les Misérables</a></i> (1862).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a>, <i>Of National Characters</i>, part I, essay XXI (1758).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> famously claimed that of all human qualities, courage was the most esteemed, because it guaranteed all others. He was right. Courage—moral courage—is the companion of great <a href="/wiki/Leadership" title="Leadership">leadership</a>. No politician could ever be viewed as exceptional unless he or she had it in spades. And historically there would have been no social progress if not for the presence of specific humans <a href="/wiki/Dissent" title="Dissent">dissenting</a> and breaking from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/herd" class="extiw" title="w:herd">herd</a>-inspired <a href="/wiki/Suspicion" title="Suspicion">suspicion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a>.... At best, courage is self-sacrificing, non-<a href="/wiki/Violent" class="mw-redirect" title="Violent">violent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Modest" class="mw-redirect" title="Modest">modest</a> and based on universal principles — and immensely powerful. Think <a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a> or <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> Regrettably, courage is also rare: think Gandhi or MLK again. And dangerous: both men were assassinated.... Look at today’s <a href="/wiki/Politicians" title="Politicians">politicians</a>... keen to be viewed as the virile <a href="/wiki/Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader">leaders</a> of their respective countries; eager to inflate their image by harming <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/migrants" class="extiw" title="w:migrants">migrants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Refugees" class="mw-redirect" title="Refugees">refugees</a>, the most <a href="/wiki/Vulnerable" class="mw-redirect" title="Vulnerable">vulnerable</a> in society. If there is courage in that, I fail to see it. <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarian leaders</a>, or elected leaders inclined toward it, are bullies, deceivers, selfish cowards. If they are growing in number it is because (with exceptions) many other politicians are mediocre... focused on their own image... too afraid to stand up... If we do not change course quickly, we will inevitably encounter an incident where that first domino is tipped—triggering a sequence of unstoppable events that will mark <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust" class="extiw" title="w:Nuclear holocaust">the end of our time</a> on this tiny planet... <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeid_Ra%E2%80%99ad_Al_Hussein" class="extiw" title="w:Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein">Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/08/30/grassroots-leaders-provide-the-best-hope-to-a-troubled-world">"Grassroots leaders provide the best hope to a troubled world," <i>The Economist</i>,</a> (30 August 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>My lord, I am without fear! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ishbi-Erra" title="Ishbi-Erra">Ishbi-Erra</a> to <a href="/wiki/Ibbi-Sin" title="Ibbi-Sin">Ibbi-Sin</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3117.htm">Letter from Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Suen about the purchase of grain</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Correspondence_of_the_Kings_of_Ur" title="Correspondence of the Kings of Ur">Correspondence of the Kings of Ur</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Dynasty_of_Babylon" class="extiw" title="w:First Dynasty of Babylon">Old Babylonian</a> period, ca. 1800-1600 BCE, at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electronic_Text_Corpus_of_Sumerian_Literature" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature">The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature</a>; their original date of composition and their historical accuracy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_of_the_Kings_of_Ur#Controversy_about_historicity_of_the_letters" class="extiw" title="w:Correspondence of the Kings of Ur">are debated</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, quoted in James Boswell, <i>Life of Samuel Johnson</i>, April 5, 1775 (1791).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, quoted in James Boswell, <i>Life of Samuel Johnson</i>, June 11, 1784 (1791).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kant_doerstling2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Kant_doerstling2.jpg/220px-Kant_doerstling2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Kant_doerstling2.jpg/330px-Kant_doerstling2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Kant_doerstling2.jpg/440px-Kant_doerstling2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1575" data-file-height="995" /></a><figcaption>Have courage to use your own understanding! ~ <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapere_aude" class="extiw" title="w:Sapere aude">Sapere aude</a></i>! "Have courage to use your own understanding!"—that is the motto of enlightenment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a>, "What is Enlightenment?"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men - such as the subjects of this book - have lived. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <i>Profiles in Courage</i> (1956).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out — not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx">"Remarks at the White House to Members of the American Legion (70)," March 1, 1962, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1962</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Profiles-in-Courage-quotations.aspx">1964 Memorial Edition of Profiles in Courage, p. 266</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Søren Kierkegaard</a>, "Irony as a Mastered Moment: The Truth of Irony," pt. 2, <i>The Concept of Irony</i> (1841).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Victory goes to those with courage! <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Braves:_GaoGaiGar_Final" class="extiw" title="w:The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar Final">The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar Final</a></i> (2000), Guy Shishioh</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few men fall into. The vast middle space contains all the intermediate kinds and degrees of courage; and these differ as much from one another as men's faces or their humors do. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld" title="François de La Rochefoucauld">François de La Rochefoucauld</a>, <i>Moral Maxims and Reflections</i>, no. 215 (1665-1678).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld" title="François de La Rochefoucauld">François de La Rochefoucauld</a>, <i>Moral Maxims and Reflections</i>, no. 216.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harper_Lee" title="Harper Lee">Harper Lee</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_kill_a_Mockingbird_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:To kill a Mockingbird (novel)">To Kill a Mockingbird</a></i>, Part 1, Chapter 11 (1960).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[C]ourage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C.S._Lewis" class="mw-redirect" title="C.S. Lewis">C.S. Lewis</a>, <i>The Screwtape Letters</i> (1942), letter XXIX</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good. <ul><li>Victoria Lincoln, "The Art of Courage," <i>Vogue</i> (October 1, 1952).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce" title="Clare Boothe Luce">Clare Boothe Luce</a>, <i>Reader's Digest</i> (May 1979).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>, <i>Long Walk to Freedom</i> (1995).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?"<br />"That is the only time a man can be brave." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_R._R._Martin" title="George R. R. Martin">George R. R. Martin</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones" title="A Song of Ice and Fire">A Game of Thrones</a></i>, Bran (I)—Bran and Ned</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is the obvious virtue of the stupid. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Somerset_Maugham" class="mw-redirect" title="Somerset Maugham">Somerset Maugham</a>, <i>The Door of Opportunity</i> (in Collected Short Stories 2), p. 423</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a>, <i>Man's Search for Himself</i> (1953), p. 174.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_qua_non" class="extiw" title="w:Sine qua non">sine qua non</a>. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a>, <i>Man's Search for Himself</i> (1953), p. 191.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a>, <i>Man's Search for Himself</i> (1953), p. 192.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a>, <i>The Courage to Create</i> (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 12.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a>, <i>The Courage to Create</i> (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>I know what I have to do now. I got to keep breathing, because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hanks" class="extiw" title="w:Tom Hanks">Tom Hanks</a> as Chuck Noland in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away" class="extiw" title="w:Cast Away">Cast Away</a> (2000)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>God grant me the serenity<br />to accept the things I cannot change,<br />courage to change the things I can,<br />and the wisdom to know the difference. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr" title="Reinhold Niebuhr">Reinhold Niebuhr</a> <i>The Serenity Prayer</i> (c. 1942).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>My courage...exists to catch the future! I'll take my future into my own hands. That's what I wish for! For the courage to keep going forward! <ul><li>Kai Ozu, interpreted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsushi_Hashimoto" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Atsushi Hashimoto">Atsushi Hashimoto</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahou_Sentai_Magiranger" class="extiw" title="w:Mahou Sentai Magiranger">Mahou Sentai Magiranger</a></i> (2005), written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Maekawa" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jun Maekawa">Jun Maekawa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruhisa_Arakawa" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Naruhisa Arakawa">Naruhisa Arakawa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiko_Yokote" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Michiko Yokote">Michiko Yokote</a> and Akatsuki Yamatoya</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.</i> <ul><li>The burden which is well borne becomes light.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i>Amorum</i> (16 BC), I. 2. 10.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Part of having <a href="/wiki/Feelings" title="Feelings">feelings</a> is <a href="/wiki/Learning" title="Learning">learning</a> to integrate them into your <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a></b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_(Star_Trek)" class="extiw" title="w:Data (Star Trek)">Data</a>, ...<b>learning to live with them. No matter what the circumstances ... Sometimes it takes <a class="mw-selflink selflink">courage</a> to try</b>, Data. <b>Courage can be an <a href="/wiki/Emotion" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotion">emotion</a> too.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard" title="Jean-Luc Picard">Jean-Luc Picard</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek_Generations" title="Star Trek Generations">Star Trek Generations</a></i> (1994) story by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brannon_Braga" class="extiw" title="w:Brannon Braga">Brannon Braga</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_D._Moore" class="extiw" title="w:Ronald D. Moore">Ronald D. Moore</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Berman" class="extiw" title="w:Rick Berman">Rick Berman</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rickenbacker" class="extiw" title="w:Eddie Rickenbacker">Eddie Rickenbacker</a>, as quoted in <i>Quote Unquote</i> (1977) compiled by Lloyd Cory, p. 73.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to 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." …You must do the thing you think you cannot do. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, <i>You Learn by Living</i> (1960).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies; but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone" title="Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone">Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Albus_Dumbledore" title="Albus Dumbledore">Albus Dumbledore</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i>Cosmos</i>. New York: Random House. 1980. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification" class="extiw" title="w:Library of Congress Classification">LCC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=QB44.2.S235&Search_Code=CALL_&CNT=5">QB44.2.S235</a>. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0394502949" title="Special:BookSources/0394502949">ISBN 0394502949</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cosmos&rft.date=1980&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.isbn=0394502949&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Courage"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span>, p. 193.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Come one, come all! this rock shall fly<br />From its firm base, as soon as I. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>, <i>Lady of the Lake</i> (1810), Canto V, Stanza 10.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>King Richard</b>: A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!<br /><b>Catesby</b>: Withdraw, my lord! I'll help you to a horse.<br /><b>King Richard</b>: Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,<br />And I will stand the hazard of the die. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> (c. 1591), Act V, scene iv.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You must not think<br />That we are made of stuff so fat and dull<br />That we can let our beard be shook with danger<br />And think it pastime. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> (1600-02), Act IV, scene 7, line 29.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O, the blood more stirs<br />To rouse a lion than to start a hare! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1"><i>Henry IV</i>, Part I</a> (c. 1597), Act I, scene 3, line 198.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,<br />And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_3" title="Henry VI, Part 3"><i>Henry VI</i>, Part III</a> (c. 1591), Act II, scene 2, line 17.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided<br />'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_3" title="Henry VI, Part 3"><i>Henry VI</i>, Part III</a> (c. 1591), Act V, scene 4, line 37.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Cowards die many times before their deaths;<br />The valiant never taste of death but once. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a></i> (1599), Act II, scene 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We fail!<br />But screw your courage to the sticking-place,<br />And we'll not fail. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> (1605), Act I, scene 7, line 59.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I dare do all that may become a man;<br />Who dares do more is none. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> (1605), Act I, scene 7.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>By how much unexpected, by so much<br />We must awake endeavour for defence;<br />For courage mounteth with occasion. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/King_John" title="King John">King John</a></i> (1598), Act II, scene 1, line 80.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Muster your wits: stand in your own defence;<br />Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Labour%27s_Lost" title="Love's Labour's Lost">Love's Labour's Lost</a></i> (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 85.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing" title="Much Ado About Nothing">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i> (1598-99), Act I, scene 1, line 13.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The thing of courage<br />As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,<br />And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,<br />Retorts to chiding fortune. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Troilus_and_Cressida" title="Troilus and Cressida">Troilus and Cressida</a></i> (c. 1602), Act I, scene 3, line 51.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a>, <i>Tee Saat Din pp.93 </i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whether you want to break free or connect, it's your choice. But with great courage, I locked my eyes with yours. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanu_Sharma" title="Sanu Sharma">Sanu Sharma</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Florence_Scovel_Shinn" title="Florence Scovel Shinn">Florence Scovel Shinn</a>, from her book <i>The Game of Life (and How to Play it)</i> (1925).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>True courage scorns<br />To vent her prowess in a storm of words;<br />And, to the valiant, actions speak alone. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tobias_Smollett" title="Tobias Smollett">Tobias Smollett</a>, <i>The Regicide</i> (1749), Act II, scene vii.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb" title="Nassim Nicholas Taleb">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>, <i>The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms</i> (2010) Fooled by Randomness, p.57.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Thomson_(poet)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="James Thomson (poet)">James Thomson</a>, <i>The Seasons</i>, <i>Summer</i> (1727), line 1,516</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>, <i>Pudd'nhead Wilson</i>, Chapter 12 (1894).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Real courage, however, is shown by those who don’t merely follow the trend or status quo, but who stand up for that which is right and truly just — and don’t kneel. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allen_West_(politician)" title="Allen West (politician)">Allen West</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allenbwest.com/2017/09/27/id-like-see-football-player-protests-different-kind/">"I'd like to see MORE football player protests — NOT less"</a> (27 September 2017)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilson,_1st_Baron_Moran" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran">Charles Wilson</a>, <i>The Anatomy of Courage</i> (1967).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Such is the essence of valor: an unthinking moment, a spark along the spinal nerves, predetermined by the sum total of everything you have ever done, wished to do or not to do, and wish you had done, or hadn't, and then comes the pain. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Zelazny" title="Roger Zelazny">Roger Zelazny</a>, <i>The Moment of the Storm</i> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_His_Face,_The_Lamps_of_His_Mouth,_and_Other_Stories" class="extiw" title="w:The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories">The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories</a></i> (1971), p. 199 (originally published in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction" class="extiw" title="w:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction">Fantasy & Science Fiction</a>,</i> June 1966)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 142-44.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,<br />Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Blair" title="Robert Blair">Robert Blair</a>, <i>The Grave</i>, Part I, line 58.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,<br /> Never doubted clouds would break,<br />Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,<br />Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better,<br /> Sleep to wake. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a>, <i>Epilogue.</i> Asolando.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a>, speech at Southwick (Jan. 15, 1906).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man of courage is also full of faith. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, <i>The Tusculan Disputations</i>, Book III, Chapter VII. Yonge's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Society and Solitude</i>, Courage.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend<br />To mean devices for a sordid end.<br />Courage—an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,<br />By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.<br />Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,<br />Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.<br />Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,<br />By which those great in war, are great in love.<br />The spring of all brave acts is seated here,<br />As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Farquhar" title="George Farquhar">George Farquhar</a>, <i>Love and a Bottle</i>. Part of dedication to the Lord Marquis of Carmarthen.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Stop shallow water still running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Greene_(dramatist)" title="Robert Greene (dramatist)">Robert Greene</a>, <i>Worth of Wit</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. <ul><li>J. C. and A. W. Hare, <i>Guesses at Truth</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Tender handed stroke a nettle,<br /> And it stings you for your pains;<br />Grasp it like a man of mettle,<br /> And it soft as silks remains. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Aaron Hill">Aaron Hill</a>, <i>Verses Written on a Window</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,<br />And let no warrior in the heat of fight<br />Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;<br />For more of those who shrink from shame are safe<br />Than fall in battle, while with those who flee<br />Is neither glory nor reprieve from death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i>The Iliad</i>, Book V, line 663. Bryant's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Justum et tenacem propositi virum<br />Non civium ardor prava jubentium,<br />Non vultus instantis tyranni,<br />Mente quatit solida.</i> <ul><li>The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tyrant.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, <i>Carmina</i>, III. 3. 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. <ul><li>Inscription on the Gates of Busyrane.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>On ne peut répondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais été dans le péril.</i> <ul><li>We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld" title="François de La Rochefoucauld">François de La Rochefoucauld</a>, <i>Premier Supplément</i>, 42.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Write on your doors the saying wise and old,<br />"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere—"Be bold;<br />Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess<br />Than the defect; better the more than less;<br />Better like Hector in the field to die,<br />Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>Morituri Salutamus</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What! shall one monk, scarce known beyond his cell,<br />Front Rome's far-reaching bolts, and scorn her frown?<br />Brave Luther answered, "Yes"; that thunder's swell<br />Rocked Europe, and discharmed the triple crown. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell" title="James Russell Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>, <i>To W. L. Garrison</i>, Stanza 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. <ul><li>Matthew, XIV. 27.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I argue not<br />Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot<br />Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer<br />Right onward. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i>Sonnet</i>, <i>To Cyriack Skinner</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Animus tamen omnia vincit.<br />Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.</i> <ul><li>Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, <i>Epistolæ Ex Ponto</i>, II. 7. 75.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Pluma haud interest, patronus an cliens probior sit<br />Homini, cui nulla in pectore est audacia.</i> <ul><li>It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a>, <i>Mostellaria</i>, II. 1. 64.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.</i> <ul><li>Courage in danger is half the battle.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a>, <i>Pseudolus</i>, I. 5. 37.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Non solum taurus ferit uncis cornibus hostem,<br />Verum etiam instanti læsa repugnat ovis.</i> <ul><li>Not only does the bull attack its foe with its crooked horns, but the injured sheep will fight its assailant.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sextus_Propertius" class="mw-redirect" title="Sextus Propertius">Sextus Propertius</a>, <i>Elegiæ</i>, II. 5. 19.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Cowards may fear to die; but courage stout,<br />Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. <ul><li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Walter_Raleigh" title="Walter Raleigh">Walter Raleigh</a>, the night before he died. Bayley's Life of Raleigh, p. 157.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>C'est dans les grands dangers qu'on voit les grands courages.</i> <ul><li>It is in great dangers that we see great courage.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Regnard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean-François Regnard (page does not exist)">Jean-François Regnard</a>, <i>Le Légataire</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Be of good courage, and if you are discouraged be encouraged in the presence of the different forms of nature. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, attributed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary#Which_Mary?" class="extiw" title="w:Gospel of Mary">Mary</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Codex" title="Berlin Codex">Berlin Codex</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Gospel of Mary">Gospel of Mary</a></i>, Chapter 4 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage. The craving for religious faith being largely an outcome of fear, the advocates of faith tend to think that certain kinds of fear are not to be deprecated. In this, to my mind, they are gravely mistaken. To allow oneself to entertain pleasant beliefs as a means of avoiding fear is not to live in the best way. In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, <i>Education and the Social Order</i> (1932), p. 112.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Virtus in astra tendit, in mortem timor.</i> <ul><li>Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, <i>Hercules Œtæus</i>, LXXI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest. <ul><li>Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, <i>Medea</i>, CLXXVI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Ei di virilità grave e maturo,<br />Mostra in fresco vigor chiome canute.</i> <ul><li>Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word,<br /> His locks were gray, yet was his courage green.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torquato_Tasso" title="Torquato Tasso">Torquato Tasso</a>, <i>Gerusalemme</i>, I. 53.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Quod sors feret feremus æquo animo.</i> <ul><li>Whatever chance shall bring, we will bear with equanimity.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terence" title="Terence">Terence</a>, <i>Phormio</i>, I. 2. 88.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)"><span id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_.281895.29"></span><i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Courage&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Josiah_Hotchkiss_Gilbert" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Author:Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert">Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert</a>'s <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dictionaryburni00gilbgoog/page/n6">Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</a></i> (1895).</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phillips_Brooks" title="Phillips Brooks">Phillips Brooks</a>, p. 165.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_F._Clarke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James F. Clarke (page does not exist)">James F. Clarke</a>, p. 166.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_F._Clarke&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James F. Clarke (page does not exist)">James F. Clarke</a>, p. 167.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Caleb_Colton" title="Charles Caleb Colton">Charles Caleb Colton</a>, p. 253.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Consult the honor of religion more, and your personal safety less. Is it for the honor of religion (think you) that Christians should be as timorous as hares to start at every sound? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Flavel" title="John Flavel">John Flavel</a>, p. 166.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business, — all who have got a task to do, a work to finish — bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose — till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton_(1814-1871)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Hamilton (1814-1871)">James Hamilton</a>, p. 253.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton_(1814-1871)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Hamilton (1814-1871)">James Hamilton</a>, p. 253.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Felicia_Hemans" title="Felicia Hemans">Felicia Hemans</a>, p. 253.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Gilbert_Holland" title="Josiah Gilbert Holland">Josiah Gilbert Holland</a>, p. 166.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude — the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on Divine aid. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elias_Lyman_Magoon" title="Elias Lyman Magoon">Elias Lyman Magoon</a>, p. 253.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the whole range of earthly experience, no quality is more attractive and ennobling than moral courage. Like that mountain of rock which towers aloft in the Irish Sea, the man possessed of this principle is unmoved by the swelling surges which fret and fume at his feet. And yet, unlike that same Ailsa Craig, he is sensitive beyond measure to every adverse influence — battling against it, and triumphing over it by a power which proceeds from God's throne, and pervades his entire being. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_McClellan_Holmes" title="John McClellan Holmes">John McClellan Holmes</a>, p. 165.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whenever you do what is holy, be of good cheer, knowing that God Himself takes part with rightful courage. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Menander" title="Menander">Menander</a>, p. 167.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What we want is men with a little courage to stand up for Christ. When Christianity wakes up, and every child that belongs to the Lord is willing to speak for Him, is willing to work for Him, and, if need be, willing to die for Him, then Christianity will advance, and we shall see the work of the Lord prosper. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_L._Moody" title="Dwight L. Moody">Dwight L. Moody</a>, p. 166.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, p. 166.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Rutherford" title="Samuel Rutherford">Samuel Rutherford</a>, p. 165.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Be not cast down. 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