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Courage is Contagious
Great crises challenge great souls and the faith and courage of great souls become contagious. ~Albert E. Roberts, "Great Souls Needed," 1922
Courage is contagious. We must encourage one another. ~Arthur Blackwood, 1889
Belief is contagious, just as doubt is. Courage is contagious, just as fear is. Love is contagious, just as hate is. Honesty is contagious, just as dishonesty is. Happiness is contagious, just as sorrow is... In the mental world, and in the spiritual world, you get paid back in the same coin you invest... ~"Mental Hydrophobia," The Business Philosopher, May 1908, A. F. Sheldon, editor
Vicious passions are contagious. Courage, generosity, hopefulness, travel like fire from heart to heart... Passion creates passion... There is an intensity of feeling of which most men are capable only when the feeling is shared by a crowd, — a fact which the Germans have recognized in one of their words for Enthusiasm (Schwärmerei). Armies are suddenly struck with common panic. Great assemblies are moved by a common impulse. There is such a thing as a Spirit of the Age which takes possession of a whole generation and moulds its character and its faith. A nation is very much more than a collection of individual men, living in the same country, speaking the same language, and governed by the same laws; there is a national life common to all classes in the State, and whatever institutions interfere with the unity and intensity of that life, diminish national strength and imperil national stability. ~R. W. Dale, "The Idea of the Church in Relation to Modern Congregationalism," 1871
...his courage is contagious, and puts heart into everybody else. ~S., "Good Cheer," The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, April 1860
Hope is contagious; courage is contagious; admiration is as contagious as the measles. Human moods are contagious, and so is the sum of one's moods, or his spirit. Happily Milton is contagious in his writings, and Dickens is contagious, and Shakespeare is contagious. ~W. C. McClellan, "High School Course in English in Relation to Entrance Requirements and Best Interests of Student," 1909
Courage is contagious. His courage set the souls of the whole nation on fire. It is reported that Ingersoll once said that if he were God he would have made health contagious instead of disease. But God has made health, and goodness, and courage, and virtue, more contagious than disease, and evil, and folly, and cowardice. ~F. N. Peloubet and Amos R. Wells, "Jonathan's Message to the Young Men and Girls of
He soon brings all those near him to their rational senses: and as widening circles extend round the spot where a stone falls into the pool, so reason, with collected courage spreads round him in a rapidly widening circumference. ~Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley, The Story of a Soldier's Life, 1903
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. ~George D. Prentice
The influence of the brave man is contagious and creates an epidemic of noble zeal in all about him. ~Orison Swett Marden, "Dare," Pushing to the Front, 1911
The light of good cheer that shines in our face as we pass victoriously through the hard things of our condition puts hope into other discouraged hearts. The faith that fails not when things seem dark, that meets sorrow and suffers, but is not crushed, helps the faith of others who are in like experiences. Life is contagious. Courage in one struggler makes all others who know him braver. ~J. R. Miller, "The Blessing of Simple Goodness," Things to Live For, 1896
We know from experience that courage is contagious, and that one really brave soul, in moments of danger, can save a crowd from a panic. But we too often fail to remember that the converse of this is true, and that one faint-hearted man or woman can infect a whole crowd with fear. ~H. W. S., Living in the Sunshine, 1906
Courage is contagious. You cannot catch it from a... coward. ~"Commercial Courage and Common Sense," The Silent Partner, 1921, F. D. Van Amburgh, editor
Having trials, be courageous;
You shall quickly clear the way.
Manly courage is contagious,
Nerving others for the fray.
Therefore, bravely take your stand;
Give to all a helping hand.
~John M. Morse, "Courage," Memories of Childhood and Other Poems, 1895
See too what good contagion belongs to it. Everywhere it finds its own with magnetic affinity. Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of her shadow. Heroic women offer themselves as nurses of the brave veteran. The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner. Poetry and eloquence catch the hint, and soar to a pitch unknown before. Everything feels the new breath, except the old doting, nigh-dead politicians, whose heart the trumpet of resurrection could not wake. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
...he was always sensible of the effect of his example in rousing him to hopefulness and courage. Whether he were in the humour to profit by it, mattered not a jot. It was contagious, and he could not choose but be affected. ~Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844
Courage is contagious, as well as fear... ~A Member of the Inner Temple, Theresa; or, The Wizard's Fate: A Romance, 1815
Courage is contagious no less than fear. ~M. Charles Weiss, History of the French Protestant Refugees, translated from the French by Henry William Herbert, 1854
Courage is contagious, even as is fear... ~Edward Hooker Dewey, M.D., "The Science of the Morning Fast," 1897
Alone the boy would not have had courage, but the big man's blue eye spoke a determination that was contagious. ~Hughes Mearns, Richard Richard, 1916
...the contagious courage which emanates from calmness in time of trial... ~Henry Bordeaux, The Awakening, 1914
Courage is contagious among scientists as they brave innumerable hazards to find facts... In the search for truth, as Dr. Arthur H. Compton, eminent physicist, so aptly puts it, one gains the courage to apply the truth. ~William F. McDermott, "Courage Is Contagious," 1940
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