Quotes About Courage

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I refer those actions which work out the good of the agent to courage, and those which work out the good of others to nobility. Therefore temperance, sobriety, and presence of mind in danger, etc., are species of courage; but modesty, clemency, etc., are species of nobility.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

We had a rock to defend, and we defended it. And the name of that rock is Liberty, and in that name I speak.

My people are the Hill People. They are the men. I go into the Dead Places but I am not slain. I take the metal from the Dead Places but I am not blasted. I travel upon the god-roads and am not afraid.

For the cold of the pistol-butt and the bullet's heat, For the ropes that choke, the manacles that bind, The huge voice, metal, that lies from a thousand tubes And the stuttering machine-gun that answers all.

The map is what we know And it means nothing. I've seen many maps, Talked to a thousand seamen, in my time, And, in the end, there is but this to say, One ventures as one ventures.

For Liberty can be lost by the practical men whose hearts are too shrunken to contain it. Liberty can be bartered away by the greedy minds who cannot see beyond their own day. Liberty can be stolen away by the robber and the brute. But Liberty grows like grass in the hearts of the common people, from the blood of their martyrs. And the tyrants rage and are gone, but the dream and the deed endure.

There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like I've finally discovered bones in myself I never knew I had. I discovered that it takes bravery to be one's self. I now know that the only thing I needed to be afraid of was of not finding my true self and having the courage to be me.

Courageous leaders obey God rather than men and will be rewarded, they are honest law-abiding citizens.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it.

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Desgraciada era entonces España; pero tenía hombres

Zaragoza se rendirá? La muerte al que esto diga. Zaragoza no se rinde. La reducirán a polvo: de sus históricas casas no quedará ladrillo sobre ladrillo; caerán sus cien templos; su suelo abriráse vomitando llamas; y lanzados al aire los cimientos, caerán las tejas al fondo de los pozos; pero entre los escombros y entre los muertos habrá siempre una lengua viva para decir que Zaragoza no se rinde.

Desde que te quiero -a su amigo decía-, no tengo miedo a nada, ni a los toros ni a los ladrones. Me siento valiente hasta al heroísmo, y ni la serpiente boa ni el león de la selva me harían pestañear.

ni al mar irritado, ni a los monstruos acuáticos, ni a la ruidosa tempestad, ni al cielo, ni a la tierra; no tenía miedo a cosa alguna creada por Dios más que a su bendita mujer.

A canter is a cure for every evil.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.