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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

What we want is men with a little courage to stand up for Christ. When Christianity wakes up, and every child that belongs to the Lord is willing to speak for Him, is willing to work for Him, and, if need be, willing to die for Him, then Christianity will advance, and we shall see the work of the Lord prosper.

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided_x000D__x000D_'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

We fail!_x000D__x000D_But screw your courage to the sticking-place,_x000D__x000D_And we'll not fail.

The thing of courage_x000D__x000D_As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,_x000D__x000D_And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,_x000D__x000D_Retorts to chiding fortune.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

By how much unexpected, by so much_x000D__x000D_We must awake endeavour for defence;_x000D__x000D_For courage mounteth with occasion.

You must not think_x000D__x000D_That we are made of stuff so fat and dull_x000D__x000D_That we can let our beard be shook with danger_x000D__x000D_And think it pastime.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,_x000D__x000D_And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.