Quotes about Courage
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
- Joseph Addison
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
- Joseph Addison
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
- Theodore Roosevelt
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
- Tom Lehrer
If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.
- Leymah Gbowee
My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
- CS Lewis
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
- St. Augustine
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
- Thomas Jefferson
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
- Victor Hugo