Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all other.