logo

Quotes About Courage

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.
~ Euripides
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
~ Francois Rabelais
There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.
~ Franz Stampfl
The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.
~ George S. Patton
I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.
~ Nigel Benn
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
~ Primo Levi
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
~ Albert Einstein
A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
~ Albert Einstein
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
~ Aristotle
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
~ Louis L'Amour
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
~ Louis L'Amour
In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.
~ P. T. Barnum
It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.
~ Rick Bragg
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
~ Horace
[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.
~ Jimmy Carter
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
~ Joshua Chamberlain
I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
~ Katharine Hepburn