
“It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), CHAPTER XXIII
“It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”
Pt. V; see also the later phrasing of Malcolm Fraser, "life wasn't meant to be easy"
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Source: The Red Magician (1982), Chapter 9 (p. 137)
“It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
Variant: Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself
“It takes a different kind of courage to be a coward.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)”
Said on his deathbed, 1827