Quotes About Courage

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man.

Quit yourselves like men.

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.

To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

He that is down need fear no fall.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.

Beware of desp'rate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.

Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment.