Quotes About Courage

Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Don't give up the ship!

Keep breathing.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that.

Don't let go of the vine.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

The smartest thing I ever said was, "Help Me!"

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.