"Courage" Quotes from Famous Books
... the walls of a college, but he had already taken his degree in Industry, Patience, Caution, Courage, Pity and Gentleness. ... — The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... force. Yet there was the crutch. Randy had seen other men, broad-shouldered, thin-hipped, who had come to worse than crutches. He did not want to think of them. He had escaped without a scratch. He did not believe that he had lacked courage, and there was a decoration to prove that he had not. But when he thought of those other men, he had no sense of his own valor. He had given so little and ... — The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey
... they rose above the pistol to the face behind it. For fifteen seconds there was a strange terrible silence as the eyes of the two men met. In that quarter of a minute Nathaniel knew that he had not guessed rightly. Strang was not afraid. He would not tell him where Marion was. The insuperable courage of this man maddened Captain Plum and unconsciously his finger fell upon the trigger of his pistol. He almost shrieked the words that ... — The Courage of Captain Plum • James Oliver Curwood
... of organization make it even more necessary than it was of old for the rulers of an empire to find a larger and ever larger place in the sun. The forces are more pressing than ever before. The times call more loudly for a genius with imagination, foresight and courage who will use the power at his disposal to write into political history the gains that have already been made a part of economic life. Let such a one arise in the United States, in the present chaos of public thought, and he could not only ... — The American Empire • Scott Nearing
... are sometimes led To sorrow, sin, and woe, {289} Because you have not courage quite, And dare not ... — Mother Truth's Melodies - Common Sense For Children • Mrs. E. P. Miller
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