It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

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 simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

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.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.

It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.

It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
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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.