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Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
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.
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.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And read more
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
Be read more
Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
That the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.
