Quotes About Courage

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'- and tore it up.

Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain't a minute to lose. They're after us!

The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.

Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man's a coward.

I do not mind Bedouins,—I am not afraid of them; because neither Bedouins nor ordinary Arabs have shown any disposition to harm us, but I do feel afraid of my own comrades.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

It doesn't matter the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog.

She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.

The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man? Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind - as long as it's day-time and you're not behind him.

today i will find strength in my weakness

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

In our own case--we are not afraid of dynamite till we get acquainted with it.

But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.

There are not enough morally brave men in stock. We are out of moral-courage material; we are in a condition of profound poverty.

He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is—a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.