Quotes About Courage

Known to the Chinese as 'Iron-Headed Old Rat

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

Let no man, therefore, lose heart from thinking that he cannot do what others have done before him; for, as I said in my Preface, men are born, and live, and die, always in accordance with the same rules.

That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.

By disarming, you at once give offense, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

Set down among these lice, this is how I keep the mold from my brain and find release from Fortune's malice. I am content to have her beat me down this way to see if she won't become ashamed.

To govern more securely some Princes have disarmed their subjects...but by disarming, you at once give offence, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either by doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

That deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself; those only are reliable, certain, and durable that depend upon yourself and your valor.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

But by disarming, you at once give offence, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things

Men ought to attempt everything and fear nothing.

offence, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either as doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

Los hombres rara vez tienen el valor suficiente para ser o extremadamente buenos o extremadamente malos.

si el que construye sobre el pueblo es un príncipe que sabe mandar y es valeroso, que no se amedrenta ante la adversidad, que no carece de otras aptitudes y que con su valor y sus instituciones mantiene despierto el ánimo de todos, nunca se encontrará engañado por el pueblo y se habrá procurado sólidos cimientos.

al que no le importa morir no le asusta quitar la vida a otro.

Justa es la guerra para quienes es necesaria, y santas las armas cuando son la única esperanza», cita de Tito Livio IX, 1.

Ofreciéndose David a Saúl para combatir a Goliat, provocador filisteo, Saúl, para darle valor, lo armó con sus armas; pero una vez que se vio cargado con éstas, David las rechazó, diciendo que con ellas no podría sacar partido de sí mismo y que prefería ir al encuentro del enemigo con su honda y su cuchillo. En fin, sucede siempre que las armas ajenas o se caen de los hombros del príncipe, o le pesan, o le oprimen.

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

There is nothing more to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its Success, than to take the lead in introduction of a new order of things.

Ofreciéndose David a Saúl para combatir a Goliat, provocador filisteo, Saúl, para darle valor, lo armó con sus armas; pero una vez que se vio cargado con éstas, David las rechazó, diciendo que con ellas no podría sacar partido de sí mismo y que prefería ir al encuentro del enemigo con su honda y su cuchillo. En fin, sucede siempre que las armas ajenas o se caen de los hombros del príncipe, o le pesan, o le oprimen. Carlos

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.