Bachzes

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
― Charles Mackay

“Macht in Amt und Würde, Größe und Ansehen durch Geburt, ja selbst die glänzendsten Begabungen und Talente sind nichts und verschwinden gegen
das einzig Große, was der Mensch zu erreichen vermag: Die Rechtschaffenheit und Schönheit des Charakters.”
― Adalbert Stifter

“My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.”
― CS Lewis

“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series