Quotes About Courage

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

A man can be a hero in any profession

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.