Quotes About Courage

We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. 320  A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

If any man, so lost in his strength and prowess, pays you no respect Ã¢â'¬â€just pay him back . . . Do what you like. Whatever warms your heart.

y, avanzando, era como una noche sombría

Of all creatures that breathe and walk on the earth there is nothing more helpless than a man is, of all that the earth fosters; for he thinks that he will never suffer misfortune in future days, while the gods grant him courage, and his knees have spring in them. But when the blessed gods bring sad days upon him, against his will he must suffer it with enduring spirit.

But Hector, stooping, shunn'd the stroke of death. Withdrawing then their weapons, each on each They fell, like lions fierce, or tusked boars, In strength the mightiest of the forest beasts.

Stones and blows and I are hardly strangers. My heart is steeled by now, I've had my share of pain in the waves and wars. Add this to the total. Bring the trial on.

One and the same lot for the man who hangs back and the man who battles hard. The same honor waits for the coward and the brave. They both go down to Death

Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end.

Then at last his sorrowing wife detailed the horrors that befall those whose city is taken; she reminded him how the men are slain, and the city is given over to the flames, while the women and children are carried into captivity; when he heard all this, his heart was touched, and he donned his armour to go forth.

he himself with high thoughts strode out in the foremost and hurled himself on the struggle of men like a high-blown storm-cloud which swoops down from above to trouble the blue sea-water.

With him at my side we'd go through fire and make it back alive.

Son of Tydeus, that thought is nonsense. Even if Hector called you a coward or weakling, the Trojans and the Dardánians wouldn't believe him, nor would the widows whose men you flung in the dirt.

Por espacio de nueve días acarrearon abundante leña; y, cuando por décima vez apuntó la aurora, que trae la luz a los mortales, sacaron llorando el cadáver del audaz Héctor, lo pusieron en lo alto de la pira y le prendieron fuego.

Never once have you taken courage in your heart to arm with your people for battle, or go into ambuscade with the best

Well do I know that though cowards quit the field, a hero, whether he wound or be wounded, must stand firm and hold his own.

Nace una fuerza de la unión de los hombres, aunque sean débiles; y nosotros somos capaces de luchar con los valientes.

He shook them and called out to the best men of the Argives to meet him in the mêlée face to face.

De los que sienten este temor, son más los que se salvan que los que mueren; los que huyen, ni alcanzan gloria, ni entre sí se ayudan.

They that shun dishonour more often live than get killed, but they that fly save neither life nor name.

My good friend, if, when we were once out of this fight, we could escape old age and death thenceforward and for ever, I should neither press forward myself nor bid you do so, but death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads, and no man can elude him; therefore let us go forward and either win glory for ourselves, or yield it to another.

There was no room for fear in Achilles' heart and he sprang at the Trojans with his terrible war-cry.

Be still, my heart; thou hast known worse than this. On that day when the cyclops, unrestrained in fury, devoured the mighty men of my company; but still thou didst endure till thy craft found a way for thee forth from out the cave, where thou thoughtest to die.

And if a god will wreck me yet again on the wine-dark sea, I can bear that too, with a spirit tempered to endure. Much have I suffered, labored long and hard by now in the waves and wars. Add this to the total-- bring the trial on!

Alcinous' daughter Nausicaa was the only one to stand firm. Athena put courage into her heart and took away the fear from her limbs, and she stood her ground and faced him.