Quotes About Courage

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. —NELSON MANDELA

The future has many names. For the weak, it's unattainable. For the fearful, it's unknown. For the bold, it's ideal. —VICTOR HUGO To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. —ARISTOTLE

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'; man who's afraid to die is too afraid to live, far as I've ever seen. So there's nothing to do but forget it, that's all. Seems to me

It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.

They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!

Marry Oswald, and be your own mistress." "I mean to be my own mistress without marrying Oswald, though I don't see my way quite clearly as yet. I think I shall set up a little house of my own, and let the world say what it pleases. I suppose they couldn't make me out to be a lunatic.

Sir Lamda Mewnew and Sir Omicron Pie

Shall a woman be flayed alive because it is unfeminine in her to fight for her own skin?

Oh, papa, what will he say to you? I don't think he can eat me, my dear; nor will he dare even to murder me. I daresay he would if he could.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

This to me is abominable, but I cannot help myself, unless I resolve to go away and hide myself. That I know cannot be right, and therefore I had better go through it and have done with it. Though I am to be stared at, I shall not be stared at very long. Some other monster will come up and take my place, and I shall be the only person who will not forget it all.

If you are busy, another time will do as well," continued the bishop, whose courage, like Bob Acres', had oozed out now that he found himself on the ground of battle.

Do?" said Mrs. Robarts. "Yes, something must be done. If I were a man I should go to Switzerland, of course; or, as the case is a bad one, perhaps as far as Hungary. What is it that girls do? they don't die nowadays, I believe.

THIS thing that she was doing required an infinite amount of pluck,—of that sort of hardihood which we may not quite call courage, but which in a world well provided with policemen is infinitely more useful than courage. Lord

Do something on your own hook. You men in Parliament are so much like sheep! If one jumps at a gap, all go after him, — and then you are penned into lobbies, and then you are fed, and then you are fleeced. I wish I were in Parliament. I'd get up in the middle and make such a speech. You all seem to me to be so much afraid of one another that you don't quite dare to speak out.

CHAPTER LXXII 'BID HIM BE A MAN

We know the story of the Spartan boy who held the fox under his tunic. The fox was biting him into the very entrails, but the young hero spoke never a word. Now, Bessy Garrow was inclined to think that it was a good thing to have a fox always biting, so that the torment caused no ruffle to her outward smiles. Now, at this moment the fox within her bosom was biting her sore enough, but she bore it without flinching.

Lord Chiltern Rides His Horse Bonebreaker

A man in the right relies easily on his rectitude and therefore goes about unarmed.

I do not think that you have any ground for fear on

In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes from hardness of heart rather than from high purpose, or true courage.

CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION

But running away is not the thing. One may be pretty nearly sure that one is right when one says that a man shouldn't run away from anything.