Quotes About Courage

It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.