QUOTES
About Courage

Sir, you know courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues, because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.  ~  Samuel Johnson

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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. —— Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.  Woodrow Wilson

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Damn the torpedoes!  Captain Drayton, go ahead!  David Glasgow Farragut

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Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. Stonewall Jackson

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I never thought much of a lion tamer's courage. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw

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Turn up the lights.
I don't want to go home in the dark. O. Henry

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home in the dark. Lin Stone

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. ~ Caesar

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"The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted --
it belongs to the brave," ~ Ronald Reagan

Sometimes when we reach for the stars, we fall short ~ Ronald Reagan

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There is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross.  ~ H. Rider Haggard

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We are not weak, if we make proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power... The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. Alfred Hitchcock

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Don't let it end like this.
Tell them I said something. ~ Pancho Villa

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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Common Wealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.  ~ Winston Churchill

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The thinner the ice the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. Josh Billings

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Let the tent be struck. last words of Robert E. Lee
 

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The timid man calls himself "cautious," the sordid man "thrifty." Syrus Publilius

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.  ~  Winston Churchill

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Nothing beats an idealist who can face facts.  ~  Lester del Rey

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Those who once pander to tyrany are never free from it. ~ Conrad Richter

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This may look like a mess but actually it is evidence of a superior intellect in the act of primal organization. Please come back next week.

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The truly great among us are those who are the salt of the earth, the strength of the world and the backbone of their nation. Bless the man that sees what is to be done and springs forward eagerly to do them.