Quotes About Courage

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Even a small star shines in the darkness.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

These are the times that try men's souls.

A cup to the dead already, - Hurrah for the next that dies.

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, 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 hills; we shall never surrender.

Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

Westward, Ho!

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

Those who live are those who fight.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.