Echoes

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

He who is brave is free.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

If you're afraid — don't do it. If you're doing it — don't be afraid.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

What dost thou fear? Strike, man, strike!

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

All life is problem-solving.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.