Wyrd oft nereth unf×gne eorl thonne his ellen deah. Fate often preserves the undoomed warrior when his courage holds firm.

-Anonymous
c.800  Beowulf, l.572^3.

Thought shall be the harder, heart the keener, courage the greater, as our might lessens.

-Anonymous
c.1000  The Battle of Maldon (translated by R K Gordon).

Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de¤  go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Un Voyage   a' Cyth e' re'.

Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage: be not afraid, neither bethoudismayed: for the L thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDJoshua1:9.

My Sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill, to himthat can get it. My Marks and Scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that Ihave fought his Battles, who now will be my Rewarder† As he went, he said,Death, where is thy Sting? And as he went down deeper, he said,Grave where is thy Victory? So he passed over, and the Trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

-Bunyan,John
  Mr Valiant-for-Glory. The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

The Red Badge of Courage.

-Crane, Stephen
  Title of novel.

To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.

-Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
  Farewell speech on departing from Bombay as Viceroy of India.

   Power isgiven only to him who dares to stoop and take it†one must have the courage to dare.

-Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
  Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak). Chilean novelist.  After  teaching at  several universities in Chile and  the  US,  he lived  in  Europe  for 15  years  before  returning  to Chile.  El  obsceno  pa¤   jaro  de  la  noche  (1970),  his  masterpiece, presents   a   hallucinatory   and   grotesque   vision   of   Chilean society.

   In to thir dirk and drublie dayis, Quhone sabill all the hevin arrayis With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis, Nature all curage me denyis Off sangis, ballattis, and of playis.

-Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re
'Meditatioun in Wyntir', stanza1.

Neither fear nor courage saves us.Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism.Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Gerontion'.

Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place of Christendom.

-Elizabeth I
  Speech to a parliamentary delegation, 5 Nov. Quoted in Christopher Haigh Elizabeth I (1988).

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'For  John F Kennedy: His Inauguration', 20  Jan.

   Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone: in another's trouble, in your own.

-Gordon, Adam Lindsay
KINDNESSCOURAGE1866  'Ye Wearie Wayfarer: Hys Ballad. In Eight Fyttes', in Bell's Life in Victoria, Nov1866, collected in Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867).

   Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

-Jonson, Ben
  Every Man out of His Humour, Induction.

Everyone has talent.What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  'The  Artist  as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.

Sapere aude, havethe couragetoknow: that isthemotto of enlightenment.

-Kant, Immanuel
  His reply to a newspaper's challenge to define enlightenment. Quoted in The Economist,16 Mar1996.

His stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters, proofthatcourageand faith and zest for freedom are truly indestructible. The record of his triumphant passage will inspire free hearts all over the globe.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  On conferring honorary US citizenship on Winston Churchill, 9  Apr.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

-Kennedy, Robert F(rancis)
  Speech at the University of San Francisco Law School, 29 Sep.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

-Leacock, Stephen Butler
  Literary Lapses,'Reflections on Riding'.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

-Lewis, C(live) S(taples)
Quoted in Cyril Connolly  The Unquiet Grave (1944), ch.3.