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Quotes About Courage

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
~ George Eliot
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
~ Lin Yutang
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
~ Mark Twain
They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."
~ Michael J. Fox
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.
~ Napoleon Hill
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire
~ Nicholas Evans
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
~ Pietro Aretino
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
~ Raymond E. Feist
A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits
~ Richard M. Nixon
It takes balls to execute an innocent man.
~ Rick Perry
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
~ Robert Bly
One man in the right will finally get to be a majority.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.
~ Henry Rollins
Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!
~ L. Neil Smith
Great men have big failures.
~ Rudy Giuliani