Animated Quote by Edward Gibbon

He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts…

— Roland Huntford

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

“There is no doubt that these legendary gentlemen were capable of experiencing, even to an intense degree, the sensation of fear--otherwise they would have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall…

— Sophocles

“For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised…

— Plutarch

I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the…

— Francois Fenelon

“The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which…

— Walter Lippmann

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A…

— Herman Melville

“A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their…

— George Eliot

“If anyone gets intoxicated with his knowledge when he looks beneath him, let him turn his eyes upward toward past ages, and he will…

— Michel de Montaigne

“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot…

— Victor Hugo