Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.
Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those great in war, are great in love.
The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
God Almighty hates a quitter.
God Almighty hates a quitter.
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take read more
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
