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No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Brontë1818–1848No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)In context
- Faith
I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent — General Tubman as we call her.
John Brown1800–1859As recalled by Wendell Phillips (letter of 16 June 1868), in Sarah H. Bradford, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869)
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
Giordano Bruno1548–1600Response to his judges on his conviction as a heretic (1600), as reported by Gaspar Schopp in a letter to Conrad Rittershausen
- Fear
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
James Callaghan1912–2005The Harvard Business Review (1 November 1986)
- Leadership
On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory, or the grave!
Thomas Campbell1777–1844Hohenlinden (1802)In context
- War & Peace
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959“The Simple Art of Murder”, The Atlantic Monthly (December 1944)
- Character
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Freedom
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill1874–19651930-1935 Wilderness Years
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, ‘it is the quality which guarantees all others.’
Winston Churchill1874–1965In Great Contemporaries, “Alfonso XIII” (1937)
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in Westminster Hall (30 November 1954), quoted in The Times (1 December 1954), p. 11
- Leadership
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons, June 18, 1940 “War Situation”.
- War & Peace
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech to the Cabinet (28 May 1940), quoted in Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941 (1983), p. 420
- War & Peace
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
- Patriotism
- War & Peace