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Quotes About Courage

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
~ Gregory Maguire
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
~ George Eliot
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
~ John of the Cross
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
~ Chinua Achebe
After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
~ Chuck Yeager
But in the hero ne'er forget the man.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
~ George S. Patton
Men, today we die a little.
~ Emil Zatopek
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
~ Dean Koontz
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
~ Shirley Chisholm
To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
~ Harry S. Truman
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It's ok to cry..!! You can overcome
~ Eiichiro Oda
There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.
~ Herman Melville
Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
~ Anne Bonny
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
~ Napoleon Hill
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
~ Charles Ives
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
~ Billy Graham
A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
~ Herman Melville
The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan