Horatio Nelson Quotes on Courage
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My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
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Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
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It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands.
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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
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The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle, but he dreads disgrace more.