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Quotes About Courage

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There cannot be too many glorious women.
~ Marianne Williamson
I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.
~ Matthew Simpson
A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?
~ Meredith Willson
The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.
~ Meredith Willson
You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.
~ Michael Moorer
Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.
~ Mickey Rourke
Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.
~ Mike Oldfield
You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
~ Nancy Gibbs
A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear is the tool of a man-made devil
~ Napoleon Hill
I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
~ Nelson Mandela
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
~ Nelson Mandela
No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.
~ Nixon Waterman
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
~ Paul Anka
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.
~ Paul Valery
A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability
~ Paulo Coelho
Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
~ Pearl S. Buck
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.
~ Plato
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]
~ Plautus
It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
~ Quincy Jones
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
~ Rajneesh