Harriet Beecher Stowe on courage

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don’t doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men’s.

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

Aristotle384–322 BC

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act II, scene ii.In context

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.