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Quotes About Courage

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.
~ Bram Stoker
My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
~ C. S. Lewis
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
~ Samuel Smiles
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
~ Samuel Smiles
I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.
~ Sarah Shahi
What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Takes more than combat boots to make a man.
~ Sting
Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
~ Thomas a Kempis
A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.
~ Thomas Brooks
When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.
~ Thomas Dunn English
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
~ Victor Hugo
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
~ Walter Scott
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.
~ Harold Bell Wright
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
~ Herman Melville
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
~ Homer
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
~ Homer
The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.
~ Horace Mann
Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.
~ Jackson C. Frank