All HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quotes about “Courage”

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.”
“Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.”
“Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.”
“The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.”
“The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.”
“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.”
“Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cÃ¶operates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.”

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