“The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
1830s, Boswell's Life of Johnson (1832)
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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881Related quotes
“There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”
Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”
Spesso è da forte,
Più che il morire, il vivere.
Oreste, IV, 2; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440.
“You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin”
Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970) Japanese manga artist
“I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.”
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
[Naravane, Vishwanath S., Sarojini Naidu: An Introduction to Her Life, Work and Poetry, http://books.google.com/books?id=h6v8HsRUBucC&pg=PA133, 1 January 1996, Orient Blackswan, 978-81-250-0931-3, 133–]
Lisa Goldstein (1953) fantasy and science fiction writer
Source: The Red Magician (1982), Chapter 9 (p. 137)
“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan (1947) British politician
Speech to the Labour Party conference in Manchester, 28 September 2006. BBC News 28 September 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5388112.stm