Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking read more

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, read more

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

A bully is a coward turned inside out.

A bully is a coward turned inside out.

But straightway Jesus spake upto them saying, Be of good cheer:
it is I; be not afraid.

But straightway Jesus spake upto them saying, Be of good cheer:
it is I; be not afraid.

O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
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O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;
For more of those who shrink from shame are safe
Than fall in battle, while with those who flee
Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
. . . because it is the quality which guarantees read more

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
. . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.