Courage

William James on Courage

Browse 1 quotations attributed to William James, catalogued under courage, with dates where available.

Psychology

United States

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Attributed to William James, entry #22117: "What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of th…"

1 Quotes by William James on Courage

"What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared."

— William James

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