Courage

Bravery, boldness, intrepidity, heroism, grit; baseness, timidity, fear

QUOTES

(Guts is ) grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
1929

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C S Lewis
The Unquiet Grave, 1944

Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!
Georges Jacques Danton
speech, 1792

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes!
J M Barrie
1922

None but the bold deserves the fair.
John Dryden
Alexander's Feast, 1697

Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Wm Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, 1599

See Also Fear Heroes

History

Evacuation of Dunkirk 1940

Firemen at the World Trade Center

Arts & Science

Movies: The Magnificent Seven, The Seven Samurai, Four Feathers, The Quiet Man

Literature

Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim

James Fenimore Cooper: Last of the Mohicans

Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage

Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote

Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Homer: Iliad

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

Wm Shakespeare: Henry IV Part I

J M Synge: Playboy of the Western World

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