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Quotes About Courage

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
~ Cesare Pavese
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
~ Charles Bukowski
As long as men die, liberty will never parish.
~ Charlie Chaplin
I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
~ Charlie Sheen
Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
~ Clark Gable
The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
~ Dennis Rainey
I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
~ Don King
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
~ Dorothy Gilman
By the grace of God, I'll be that man.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
~ Emile M. Cioran
People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.
~ Evel Knievel
When you're a man you try and be macho.
~ Frank Bruno
In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.
~ Frank Smythe
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels
~ Ginger Rogers
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
~ Margaret Fuller
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
~ Mark Twain
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
A man that is down doesn't fear to fall.
~ Matthew Ashimolowo