Quotes About Courage

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try and do the good of which our hands are capable for all the people who come in our way...

Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.

Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter. One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other its nadir. An yet, to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life, removed from each other by the merest degree of arc. (MARCH - Chapter 11 - page 168)

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.

She closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them and gazed at me. 'I wonder if you know how you have changed. It is the one good, perhaps, to come out of this terrible year. Oh, the spark was clear in you when you first came to me - but you covered your light as if you were afraid of what would happen if anybody saw it. You were like a flame blown by the wind until it is almost extinguished. All I had to do was put the glass around you. And now, how you shine!

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.