Gail Chord Schuler’s Approach To Life
When I was a teenager, while I toured the Capitol as part of a singing group, I bought a book from the Washington Cathedral at Washington, D.C.. This book was called COURAGE: A Little Book of Brave Thoughts. I read it many times as a young lady, it infused my thoughts. Read it, absorb it and you will understand how I approach life and how I approach war. Because I couldn’t afford to move my books from Seattle, I lost this book. I called bookstores to buy it. It was out of print. But a library had it, so I typed the whole book out, so I could still read those sayings that inspired me as a young woman, and that formed my attitude for the rest of my life. . .
FROM COURAGE: A LITTLE BOOK OF BRAVE THOUGHTS
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
VICTOR MARIE HUGO
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Remember that if the opportunities for great needs should never come, the opportunity for good deeds is renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer,
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
THOMAS A KEMPIS
Courage is the best gift of all; courage stands before everything. It is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing.
PLAUTUS
It is my joy in life to find
At every turning of the road
The strong arm of a comrade kind
To help me onward with my load.
And since I have no gold to give,
And love alone must make amends,
My only prayer is, while I live,
God make me worthy of my friends!
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN
The bad man’s courage still prepares the way for its own outwitting.
SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE
The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLE
“Though I cannot teach courage,” said Nekayah, “I must not learn cowardice.”
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, bounty, friendship, and fidelity may be found.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
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 BRONTE
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: It was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and controls them, and of which the laborers on the surface do not even dream!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
A man of courage never wants weapons.
THOMAS FULLER
We try to grasp too much of life at a time. We think of it as a whole, instead of taking the days one by one. Life is a mosaic, and each tiny piece must be cut and set with skill.
ANONYMOUS
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
There is courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture, in sculpture, in painting or in poetry, each cheering the mind of the spectator or receiver as by true strokes of genius, which yet nowise implies the presence of physical valor in the artist. This is the courage of genius, in every kind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end,
Courage — an independent spark from
Heaven’s bright throne,
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant,
high, alone. . .
GEORGE FARQUHAR
Who, then, is the invincible man? He whom nothing outside the sphere of his moral purpose can dismay.
EPICTETUS
To be always intending to lead a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
JOHN TILLOTSON
Pay as little attention to discouragements as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth, rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
MALTBIE D. BABCOCK
O, fear not in a world like this
And thou shalt know erelong,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true, to be manly and womanly. He can do more for others who has done most with himself.
SAMUEL DICKEY GORDON
No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something. God stoops o’er his head.
ROBERT BROWNING
That’s courage — to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
PLAUTUS
This I resolved on — to run, when I can, to go, when I cannot run; and to creep, when I cannot go.
JOHN BUNYAN
There are degrees of courage, and each step upward makes us acquainted with a higher virtue. Let us say then frankly that the education of the will is the object of our existence.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
O the joy of a manly selfhood!
To be servile to none, to defer to none,
not to any tyrant known and unknown,
To walk with erect carriage, a step springy
and elastic,
To look with calm gaze or with a flashing eye.
WALT WHITMAN
He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We have work to do, and loads to lift;
Shun not the struggle — face it; ‘tis God’s gift.
MALTBIE BABCOCK
All the doors that lead inward to the secret place of the Most High are doors outward — out of self — out of smallness — out of wrong.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Heaven is not reached at a single bound;
But we build the ladder by which we rise,
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit round by round.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Courage is imperial. It underlies true achievement. Unless we have moral nerve to live out our convictions, they are of small account.
ANONYMOUS
Man who would be,
Must rule the empire of himself; in it
Must be supreme, establishing his throne,
Of vanquished will, quelling the anarchy
Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
True courage is to do without witnesses everything that one is capable of doing before all the world.
DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCALD
We place at the top of our esteem those people who take chivalrously the heavy blows of life, who are not brave merely, but gallant.
OWEN WISTER
Wouldst shape a noble life? Then cast
No backward glances toward the past,
And though somewhat be lost and gone,
Yet do thou act as one new born;
What each day needs, that shalt thou ask,
Each day will set its proper task.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace, the most brilliant lightning comes of the darkest clouds.
FRANCOIS RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
Courage is the scorner of things which inspire fear.
SENECA
The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
CICERO
To fight aloud is very brave,
But gallanter, I know,
Who charge within the bosom
The calvary of woe.
EMILY DICKINSON
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
Hope and have faith, and take new courage! Go forward, knowing that all will be well with you, that every situation will become harmonious and will be adjusted for your highest good. This is possible if you have much faith.
DANA GATLIN
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Oh, while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave,
To meet life as a powerful conqueror,
No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints, or scornful criticisms,
To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground,
Proving my interior soul impregnable,And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.
WALT WHITMAN
Live as though life were earnest, and life will be so.
OWEN MEREDITH
Many owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. — It springs from a consciousness of virtue, and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.
SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH
‘Tis more brave
To live, than to die.
OWEN MEREDITH
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let is first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
EPICTETUS
God will come in at the deepest part of the stream to lend you a hand.
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD
Nothing but courage can guide life.
LUC DE CLAPIERS VAUVENNARGUES
Where in the heart there is combined love and courage, even the weak become mighty.
HAROLD WHALEY
Fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man’s self, and an undisturbed doing his duty whatever evils beset, or dangers lie in the way.
JOHN LOCKE
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
Sing unto the Lord a new song: sing praises lustily unto him with a good courage.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
True courage scorns
To vent her prowess in a storm of words;
And, to the valiant, actions speak alone.
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT
The bravery founded on hope of recompense, fear of punishment, experience of success, on rage, or on ignorance of danger, is but common bravery, and does not deserve the name. True bravery proposes a just end; measures the dangers, and meets the result with calmness and unyielding decision.
FRANCOIS DE LA NOUE
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; but he whose noble soul subdues its fear, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
JOANNA BAILLIE
A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withsoever thou goest.
JOSHUA 1:9
The greater the difficulty, the more glory is surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EPICURUS
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their lustre. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect his people.
THOMAS GUTHRIE
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA
It is dangerous to abandon oneself to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
HENRY FREDERIC AMIEL
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
POLYBIUS
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
LONGINUS
Counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The estimate and valor of a man consists in the heart and in the will; there his true honor lies. Valor is stability, not of arms and legs, but of courage and the soul; it does not lie in the valor of our horse, nor of our arms, but in ourselves. He that falls obstinate in his courage, if his legs fail him, fights upon his knees.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
CHARLES BUXTON
The brave find a home in every land.
OVID
Courage brother! do not stumble!
Though thy path is dark as night;
There’s a star to guide the humble:
Trust in God, and do the Right!
NORMAN MACLEOD
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror, and run the race that is sent before him with a single mind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
A man must have the gift to discern at all turns where the true heart of the matter lies and to plant himself courageously on that, as a strong true man that other true men may rally round him there. He will not continue leader of men otherwise.
WILLIAM CARLYLE
Go to your work and be strong, halting not in your ways,
Balking the end half-won, for an instant’s dole of praise.
Stand to your work and be wise, certain of sword and pen,
Being neither children, nor gods, but men in a world of men.
RUDYARD KIPLING
Fortune and love favor the brave.
OVID
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
WILLIAM THACKERAY
Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
“Be bold!” and everywhere — “Be bold”;
“Be not too bold!” Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Self-trust is the essence of heroism
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
LEIGH HUNT
True courage is the result of reasoning. — Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins; and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.
JEREMY COLLIER
If thou desire to be truly valiant, fear to do any injury; he that fears to do evil is always afraid to suffer evil; he that never fears is desperate; he that fears always is a coward; he is the true valiant man that dares nothing but what he may, and fears nothing but what he ought.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tyrant.
HORACE
The heights of great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the height.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Courage makes a man more than himself;
for he is then himself plus his valor.
WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
AARON HILL
Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
AESCHYLUS
Be not merely good; be good for something.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
PSALM 27
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.
WILLIAM COWPER
I know of no more encouraging fact that the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Hardiness should not darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Unbounded courage and compassion joined,
Tempering each other in the victor’s mind,
Alternately proclaim him good and great,
And make the hero and the man complete.
JOSEPH ADDISON
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred
With maudlin grief for any wasted past?
A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt!
Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!
DON MARQUIS
Art little? Do thy little well,
And for thy comfort know
Great men can do their greatest work
No better than just so.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but are the first to rescue when others are endangered.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
AARON HILL
It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. — Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Courage that grows from constitution, often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A man must not complain of his “element,” or of his “time,” or the like; it is thriftless work doing so. His time is bad; well then, he is there to make it better.
THOMAS CARLYLE
God gives each man one life, like a lamp,
then gives
That lamp due measure of oil: lamp lighted —
hold high, wave wide
Its comfort for others to share.
ROBERT BROWNING
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortune hardest to bear are those which never come.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
True courage is not built upon mental cleverness, or earthly power, but it stands upon the solid rock of truth and spiritual power.
LOWELL FILLMORE
So, in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or flight, but in courage. He who wishes to walk in the most peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution. Let him front the object of his worst apprehension, and his stoutness will commonly make his fear groundless.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Not in the clamor of the crowded street
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Brave your storm with firm endeavor, let
your vain repinings go!
Hopeful hearts will find forever
roses underneath the snow!
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest’s shock.
DANTE
A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing — the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON
The wisest man could ask no more of fate
Than to be simple, modest, manly, true,
Safe from the many, honored by the few;
Nothing to court in Church, or World,
or State,
But inwardly in secret to be great.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
When fate is adverse, a wise man can always strive for happiness and sail against the wind to attain it.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
I prefer to strive in bravery with the bravest, rather than in wealth with the richest, or in greed with the greediest.
MARCUS CARO
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always some one to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Being a man, ne’er ask the god for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
MENANDER
Be strong, and quit yourselves like man.
I SAMUEL 4:9
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart.
PSALM 27:14
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
CHARLES F. LUMMIS
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.
I TIM. 1:7
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCH
Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
SENECA
Out of the dark a shadow,
Then, a spark;
Out of the cloud a silence,
Then, a lark;Out of the heart a rapture,
Then, a pain;
Out of the dead cold ashes,
Life again.
JOHN B. TABB
We all stand in the front rank of the battle every moment of our lives; where there is a brave man in the thickest of the flight, there is the point of honor.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Fear to do base and unworthy things is valor; if they be done to us, to suffer them is also valor.
BEN JONSON
Happiness is freedom, and freedom is courage.
PERICLES
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
One day, with life and heart,
Is more than time enough to find a world.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Through all the air the eagle may roam
The whole earth is father-land to the brave.
OVID
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
GEORGE ELIOT
The truest courage is always mixed with circumspection; this being the quality which distinguishes the courage of the wise from the hardiness of the rash and foolish.
WILLIAM JONES OF NAYLAND
O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
Do what may bring him shame in others’ eyes;
For more of those who shrink from shame
are safe
Than fall in battle, while with those who flee
Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.
HOMER
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
EPICTETUS
The brave are parsimonious of threats.
LOUIS KOSSUTH
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
As courage and intelligence are the two qualifications best worth a good man’s cultivation, so it is the first part of intelligence to recognize our precarious estate in life, and the first part of courage to be not at all abashed before the fact.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
God helps the brave.
JOHANN VON SHILLER
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
SOCRATES
He is not worthy of the honeycomb
That shuns the hive because the bees have
stings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
There are two freedoms: the false where one is free to do what he likes and the true where he is free to do what he ought.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o’clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision.
NAPOLEON I
From the lowliest depth there is a path to the loftiest height.
WILLIAM CARLYLE
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
ROBERT BROWNING
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet.
MARGARET FULLER
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
CATHERINE OF RUSSIA (I am descended from this woman’s royal family–the same family that produced Frederick the Great of Prussia)
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of process.
HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN
There’s a brave fellow! There’s a man of pluck!
A man who’s not afraid to say his say,
Though a whole town’s against him.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
I am devilishly afraid, that’s certain; but . . .
I’ll sing, that I may seem valiant.
JOHN DRYDEN
Hope awakens courage.
He who can implant courage in the human soul
Is the best physician.
KARL LUDWIG VON KNEBEL
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
WALTER BAGEHOT
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps. He only is rightly immortal, to whom all things are immortal. I have read somewhere, that none is accomplished, so long as any are incomplete; that the happiness of one cannot consist with the misery of any other.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We always have time enough, if we use it aright.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
OVID
I argue not
Against Heaven’s hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.
JOHN MILTON
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
THOMAS CARLYLE
No man is born into the world, whose work
Is not born with him. There is always work
And tools to work withal, for those who will:
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
For courage mounteth with occasion.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When God shuts a door, he opens a window.
JOHN RUSKIN
Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!
SAMUEL DANIEL
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
CONFUCIUS
The direct foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth or courage.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
JULIUS CHARLES AND AUGUST W. HARE
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
A great deal of talent is lost in this world for the want of a little courage.
SMITH
Not failure, but low aim is a crime.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
He fearless stands; he knows whom he doth trust:
Strange strength resideth in the soul that’s just.
MICHAEL DRAYTON
One man with courage makes a majority.
ANDREW JACKSON
Nothing can work me damage, except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
I have no fear! What is in store for me
Shall find me self-reliant, undismayed.
God grant my only cowardice may be
Afraid — to be afraid!
EVERARD JACK APPLETON
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
GEORGE MACDONALD
No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.
DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
One self-approving hour whole years outweigh.
ALEXANDER POPE
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
JOHN A. GARFIELD
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Confidence or courage is conscious ability — the sense of power.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
In the most private life, difficult duty is never far off. Therefore we must think with courage.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Recall your courage, and lay aside sad fear.
VERGIL
Courage knows no yielding to calamity.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Earth shakes beneath them, and heaven
roars above;
But nothing scares them from the course
they love.
WILLIAM COWPER
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Who does the best his circumstances allows,
Does well, acts nobly — angels could do no more.
EDWARD YOUNG
Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
MATTHEW 14:27
It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
JEAN REGNARD
A man of courage is also full of faith.
CICERO
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul’s strength on.
ROBERT BROWNING
Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Presence of mind and courage in distress,
Are more than armies to procure success.
JOHN DRYDEN
Our only greatness is that we aspire.
JEAN INGELOW
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
OVID
Courage from hearts, and not from numbers grows.
JOHN DRYDEN
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The braver the man so much the more fortunate will he be.
LATIN PROVERB
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
ARISTOTLE
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
PLAUTUS
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
WILLIAM M. THACKERAY
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Life is too short to be little.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Do your duty and leave the rest to providence.
STONEWALL JACKSON
Fields are won by those who believe in winning.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of man have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
ANTHONY SHAFTSBURY
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage to them — that it was a vain endeavor?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
JAMES SHIRLEY
Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER
Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
LAURENCE STERNE
Those who believe that the praises which arise from valor are superior to those which proceed from any other virtue have not considered.
JOHN DRYDEN
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
PYTHAGORAS
Be not afraid of every stranger;
Start not aside for every danger;
Things that seem are not the same;
Blow not a blast at every flame.
GEORGE PEELE
Fear always springs from ignorance.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Every noble work is at first impossible.
THOMAS CARLYLE
He’s truly valiant that can suffer wisely
The worst that man can breathe and make
his wrongs
His outsides, to wear them like his raiment,
carelessly;
And ne’er prefer his injuries to his heart
To bring it into danger.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How strangely high endeavors may be blessed, where piety and valor jointly go.
JOHN DRYDEN
Conscience is the root of all true courage;
if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
JAMES F. CLARKE
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul’s strength on.
ROBERT BROWNING
The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
CORRA HARRIS
Fearless minds climb soonest unto crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Difficulties are the things that show what men are.
EPICTETUS
Courage is that virtue which champions the cause of right.
CICERO
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
The love of glory, the fear of shame, the design of making a fortune, the desire of rendering life easy and agreeable, and the humor of pulling down other people are often the causes of that valor so celebrated among men.
DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
The brave man seeks not a popular applause,
Nor, overpower’d with arms, deserts his
cause;
Unsham’d, though foil’d, he does the best
he can,
Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
JOHN DRYDEN
The busy have no time for tears.
GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON
Without courage
There cannot be truth:
And without truth
There can be no other virtue.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
JEAN BAPTISTE ALPHONSE
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
‘Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZAC
What a new face courage puts on everything!
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Courage exerts itself in difficulties.
OVID
It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Dare to do your duty always; this is the height of valor.
CHARLES SIMMONS
The better part of valor is discretion.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He most prevails who nobly dares.
WILLIAM BROOME
Physical courage which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man both are necessary.
CALEB C. COLTON
There is always safety in valor.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA
Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage can support him in it.
THOMAS FULLER
Character is singularly contagious.
SAMUEL A. ELIOT
The gods always favor the strong.
TACITUS
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
CHRISTINE NESTELL BOVEE
The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used, will be a gift also to his race.
JOHN RUSKIN
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
SENECA
The low man seeks a little to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Does ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundred’s soon hit;
This high man, aiming at a million,
Misses a unit,
That has the world here — should he need
the next,
Let the world mind him!
This throws himself on God, and
unperplexed,
Seeking, shall find Him.
ROBERT BROWNING
If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM
Blessed is the man who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLE
To suffer woes which hopes thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than the death or
night;
To defy power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, to bear, to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck, the things to
contemplate;
Neither to change, to falter, or repent;
This, like the glory Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone, Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Have the courage not to adopt another’s courage.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
He who respects himself is safe from others;
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Valor lies half-way between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
One who never turned his back but marched
breast forward
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted,
wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,
Sleep to wake.
ROBERT BROWNING
Courage respects courage.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Languor is not in your heart,
Weakness is not in your word,
Weariness is not on your brow.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle.
ANONYMOUS
The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
So let him wait God’s instant, men call years;
Meantime, hold hard by truth and his great soul,
Do out thy duty! Through such souls alone,
God stooping, shows sufficient of His light
For us i’ the dark to rise by. And I rise.
ROBERT BROWNING
I sit beside my lonely fire
And pray for wisdom yet
For calmness to remember
Or courage to forget.
CHARLES HAMILTON AIDE
Muster your wits: stand in your own defense;
Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There are seasons when to be still demands immensely higher strength than to act.
CHANNING
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Little things affect little minds.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Self-reverence, self-knowledge,
self-control
These three things lead life to sovereign
power.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Chiefly, the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON
It is better to wear out than rust out.
RICHARD CUMBERLAND
And though hard be the task, “Keep a stiff upper lip.”
PHOEBE CARY
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY