Character Quote by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

“They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage…

— Nancy Atherton

“and yet the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit of freedom,…

— Frederick Douglass

“At that time I was too young for some of the troubles I was having, and I had not yet learned what to do…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“I went to them without fear, child, prepared for a pitched battle, expecting the fierce Watchers, famed for their love of Earth, to defend…

— Kirby Crow

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so…

— Daphne du Maurier

“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

“The Chiefs of Glengarry, Keppoch, and Lochiel, whose clans, equal in courage and military fame to any in the Highlands, lay within the neighbourhood…

— Walter Scott

“Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of all human…

— Alexander Pushkin

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite;…

— Toni Morrison

“All of these heroes had failed to cajole and coerce the masters of America. Their ambition of a better world had been frustrated. This…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Aye, he thought, loyalty, that most irrevocable of clan codes, was a point of honor more fiercely and tenaciously held than a man's life;…

— Jan Cox Speas