(on the way to the guillotine)
Courage! Ihave show it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.
Courage - fear that has said its prayers.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance on fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Crime and Punishment
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
Necessity does the work of courage.
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
We could be cowards, if we had courage enough.
The Beggar's Opera
Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?
Ye Wearie Wayfarer „Fytte 8"
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.
One man with courage makes a majority.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle that 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 morality.
Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protecs it.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
„A Jacobite's Epitaph"
To my true king I offered free from stain
Courage and faith; vain faith, and courage vain.
Paradise Lost
... What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Le courage de l'improviste.
Spontaneous courage.
Letter to Consul Cambacérès (of the Channel)
It is a mere ditch, and will be crossed as soon as someone has the courage to attempt it.
O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
The Cloister and the Hearth
Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort!
Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
„Message to the Public"
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
Walden „Sounds"
The three-o'clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
The Bertrams
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Want of friends argues either want of humility or of courage, or both.
Aeneid
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.
Fortitude
„Tisn't life that matters! „Tis the courage you bring to it.
General Orders
The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
