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Quotes About Courage

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.
~ Jeremy Irons
Alright, manly man," he says. "Go prove that you're a man.
~ Jessica Sorensen
It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.
~ Jim Butcher
A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.
~ Joanna Baillie
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.
~ John Adams
They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.
~ John C. Maxwell
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.
~ John Dryden
What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.
~ John Dunning
To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.
~ John Edgar Wideman
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
~ John Eldredge
There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.
~ John F. Kennedy
In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
~ John F. Kennedy
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
~ John F. Kennedy
I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.
~ John Green
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
~ John Heywood
Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release
~ John Moulder Wilson
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
~ John Ruskin
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.
~ John Steinbeck
For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.
~ John Wilmot
You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?
~ John Yau