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Quotes About Courage

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.
~ Norman Mailer
I can make men follow me to hell.
~ Philip Kearny
Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.
~ Philip Neri
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
~ O. Henry
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
~ Oriana Fallaci
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
~ Richard Spaight Donnell
Nothing fazes me. I'm like some kinda Space man on his way to Mars with a big gun and a whole lot of coffee.
~ Rob Campbell
Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
When is man strong until he feels alone?
~ Robert Browning
John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.
~ Robert Burns
Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
~ Harper Lee
That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.
~ Helen H. Gardener
I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.
~ Henry Wriston
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
~ Herodotus
A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.
~ Irving Berlin
Maybe I should try singing like a man.
~ James Blunt
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
~ James G. Frazer
Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.
~ Janet Morris
Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
~ Janet Morris
Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.
~ Jennifer Donnelly