Quotes About Courage

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well, I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, - never! never! never!

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

Be not imitator; freshly act thy part; Through this world be thou an independent ranger; Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.

Only those who dare, truly live.