Courage and Strength

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

If men live decently it is because discipline Saves their very lives for them.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties, the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The man who in wavering times is inclined to be wavering only increases the evil, and spreads it wider and wider; but the man of firm decision fashions the universe.

They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

A little tumult , now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Cowardice is the unpardonable sin in a man.

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

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Coward, n . One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is, perhaps, cowardice.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Courage has need of reason, but it is not reason’s child; it springs from deeper strata.