Quotes About Courage

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

If there was anybody I could meet that I have not met, I would say David. David from the Bible. He was a mighty man of God, and he was a warrior, and he was a worshipper.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

The man-at-arms is the only man.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

A brave man is seldom unkind.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.