When moral courage feels it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable

 

 Leigh Hunt

 

 

 

 

 

Better, like Hector, in the field to die

Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

 

 Longfellow

 

 

 

 

 

The Lord abideth back of me to guide my fighting arm.

 

 Rudyard Kipling

 

 

 

 

 

While kings of eternal evil

Yet darken the hills about,

Thy part is, with broken sabre,

To rise on the last redoubt;

 

To fear not sensible failure,

Nor covet the game at all,

But fighting, fighting, fighting,

Die, driven against the wall!

 

 Louise Imogen Guiney

 

 

 

 

 

A short sword for a brave man.

 

 French Proverb

I said unto myself, “My way is barred;

The cliff is high and grim and tempest-scarred.”

Yet step by step I mounted it, till, lo,

I felt the free air on the summit blow.

 

I said unto myself, “My strength is small

And I am weary and I fear to fall.”

And, lo, an angel took me by the hand

And led me safely where I feared to stand.

 

 Arthur Chamberlain

 

 

 

 

 

There is no more important work in this world, no greater duty, than to help others to keep up their courage. He is our best friend whose words of cheerful confidence give more life to the heart; and he is our enemy who, by his words of doubt and his spirit of fear, saps this ardour, and take from us our courage.

 

 Anon

 

 

 

 

 

We are not meant to be good in this world but to try to be, and fail, and keep on trying; and when we get a cake to say, “Thank God!” and when we get a buffet, to say, “Just so: well hit!”

 

 Robert Louis Stevenson