Quotes About Courage

I arose a mother in Israel.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

If something doesn't come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind, and isn't through fighting.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

It's not worthy of human beings to give up.

Never admit defeat!

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

In the clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.

We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.