The Spirit of Revolt (1880)
Context: When a revolutionary situation arises in a country, before the spirit of revolt is sufficiently awakened in the masses to express itself in violent demonstrations in the streets or by rebellions and uprisings, it is through action that minorities succeed in awakening that feeling of independence and that spirit of audacity without which no revolution can come to a head.
Men of courage, not satisfied with words, but ever searching for the means to transform them into action, — men of integrity for whom the act is one with the idea, for whom prison, exile, and death are preferable to a life contrary to their principles, — intrepid souls who know that it is necessary to dare in order to succeed, — these are the lonely sentinels who enter the battle long before the masses are sufficiently roused to raise openly the banner of insurrection and to march, arms in hand, to the conquest of their rights.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXVI: On Various Aspects of Virtue
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 188.
“Who is succesfull in life is he who dares to transform his fears into courage.”
Original: Chi ha successo nella vita è colui che osa trasformare le sue paure in coraggio.
Source: prevale.net
Wanted, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Interview with Barbara Walters (15 March 1991); also quoted in his memoir It Doesn't Take a Hero : General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Autobiography (1992), p. xiii
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), pp. 180-181.
"Mind and Motive"
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)
