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Quotes About Courage

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.
~ George S. Patton
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
~ James Meredith
Most men, however brave, have some anxiety or fear in them.
~ Babur
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
~ P. T. Barnum
When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
~ Vance Havner
A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.
~ George S. Patton
The worse the man, the better the soldier.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.
~ Jessie Redmon Fauset
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
~ Havelock Ellis
Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.
~ Eric Taylor
A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.
~ Boris Spassky
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
~ Charles de Gaulle
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
~ Herman Melville
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
~ Homer
A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.
~ Carole Lombard
England expects that every man will do his duty.
~ Horatio Nelson
The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.
~ Alvin C. York
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
~ Fidel Castro
Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
~ Daniel O'Connell
If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!
~ Nick Vujicic
fear no man but only God
~ Tupac Shakur