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Quotes About Courage

Bear it like a man, even if you feel it like an ass.
~ George Bernard Shaw
a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat
~ George Bernard Shaw
Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair
~ George Bernard Shaw
Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best take it out and teach it to dance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
La libertad supone responsabilidad. Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I know how many lives any move of mine will cost; and if the move is worth the cost I make it and pay the cost. But Joan never counts the cost at all:
~ George Bernard Shaw
I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as "biting off more than they can chew.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. The Devil's Disciple, Act II
~ George Bernard Shaw
Membenci adalah pembalasan orang pengecut yang diintimidasi.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Do not think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone, and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God? -Joan
~ George Bernard Shaw
Do not think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone, and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God? -Joan
~ George Bernard Shaw
MRS. FARRELL. I wouldnt compare risks run to bear living people into the world to risks run to blow them out of it. A mother's risk is jooty: a soldier's nothin but divilmint.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.
~ George Carlin
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
~ George Eliot