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Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 57
- Thinking
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), tr. René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
- Faith
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- War & Peace
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)In context
- War & Peace
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Ulysses (1842)In context
- Motivation & Goals
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Four Georges (1860-1861), “George II”.
Life is to entered upon with courage.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
- Life & Death
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain1835–1910Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 12.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain1835–1910Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain1835–1910Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935), p. 413
- Patriotism
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is⁠—a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it is beneath pitifulness.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXIIIn context
- War & Peace
Christ is with us until the world’s end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
William Tyndale1494–1536The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
- Christianity
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
- Success
Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.
?Unattributed
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that’s the way to the stars.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641
- Youth