Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.