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We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we’re proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change.
Al Goreborn 1948Speech at the Democratic National Convention (28 August 1996).
- America
- Change
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
- Wisdom
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham1918–2018“A Time for Moral Courage”, Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara1928–1967Reported last words, to his executioner, La Higuera, Bolivia (9 October 1967)
- Life & Death
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is when we all play safe that fatality will lead us to our doom. It is in the “dark shade of courage” alone that the spell can be broken.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Servant of Peace: A Selection of the Speeches and Statements of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the United Nations (1962), p. 107
- Risk
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, ch. XLIIIIn context
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Time Enough for Love (1973)
- Life & Death
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled;
The flame that lit the battle’s wreck,
Shone round him o’er the dead.
Felicia Hemans1793–1835Casabianca (1826)In context
- War & Peace
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Introduction to Men at War (1942)
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
- Failure
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book IV, Chapter XXXIVIn context
- Life & Death
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
William Ernest Henley1849–1903Invictus (1875)In context
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
William Ernest Henley1849–1903Invictus (1875)In context
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
William Ernest Henley1849–1903Invictus (1875)In context
- Fear