Quotes About Courage

A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.

Life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

Like all his kind and all other bullies, von Schoenvorts was a coward at heart.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't.

It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....

Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.

I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

Strength and courage are basic virtues for both followed and follower.

The good fighter, the hero, the man who wins the most precious of all treasures, fame, is the man who never gives up, and who does not worry about the possible consequences of bravery

Battle is a way of life, a necessary function of the worthiest members of society.

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don't run away when things are tough. It means you don't turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion.... There's a lot of people who won't wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what's honorable and decent.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.

Out on Ocean Avenue in Flatbus, where I was a poor Black girl, living in someone else's apartment in an all-white neighborhood, where my family was seen as "the help". And at eight in the morning, on that street with all of its white faces staring down at me or not seeing me at all, I walked with my head high and made it to the bus stop without flinching. It was my armor, too.

Who was going to tell these women that they didn't have to live this way? I was.

He that is down can fall no lower.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all.... Indeed, there are strange new worlds to explore -- to seek out new life and start new civilizations. It is time to boldly go where no man -- or woman -- has gone before. Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and his beloved Mr. Spock, the bar has been set high for us to continue humanity's quest to probe outward in the universe.

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return ship to England? Absolutely not! They traveled to the New World to settle. And that's what I hope we will be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustainable environment.

Courageous men are those who have walked from far unknown backward villages to come and lead the economists elites, army Generals, cooperate workers in Urban communities

High is the fife and low the drum, And people lean to see, And hats are off where heroes come, And none is off to me.