Quotes About Courage

You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mark on a man that will last forever.

He said it would be good for me, as I grew older, to know that a man always made his troubles less by going to meet them instead of waiting for them to catch up with him, or trying to run away from them.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...

He had learned long ago that dying was not hard. The harder course was to defy the odds, to endure life's torments stoically.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer

We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

There is always safety in valor

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.