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Quotes About Courage

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
~ Confucius
This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
~ Dan Quayle
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
~ Dante Alighieri
He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.
~ Doc Pomus
I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!
~ Donny Osmond
Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.
~ E. W. Howe
A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.
~ Earl Hamner, Jr.
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
~ Edmund Burke
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.
~ Elizabeth Charles
A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.
~ Euripides
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
~ Frederick William Robertson
Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
~ George Bernard Shaw
That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.
~ George Crabbe
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
~ George Eliot
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
~ George MacDonald
Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.
~ George R. R. Martin
Those are brave men... lets go kill them
~ George R. R. Martin
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
~ George S. Patton
I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.
~ George S. Patton