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Quotes About Courage

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.
~ Gail Sheehy
Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.
~ Gary Larson
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
~ George Bernard Shaw
The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.
~ George Herbert
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
~ George Herbert
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
~ George Herbert
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
~ George MacDonald
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
~ George MacDonald
You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.
~ George R. R. Martin
A true man does what he will, not what he must.
~ George R. R. Martin
A frightened man is a beaten man.
~ George R. R. Martin
That man said he'd take your head too." "Well, as to that," Yoren said, "if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it.
~ George R. R. Martin
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.
~ George R. R. Martin
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.
~ George S. Patton
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
~ Georgette Heyer
It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
~ Glenway Wescott
Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?
~ Groucho Marx
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
~ H. G. Wells
This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
~ Lloyd Alexander
I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.
~ Lloyd Alexander