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Quotes About Courage

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
~ George W. Melville
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
~ George Washington
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
~ George Washington
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.
~ Glenda Jackson
What governs men is the fear of truth.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
~ Henry David Thoreau
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
~ Henry Fielding
In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.
~ Henry Miller
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
~ Henry Miller
Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.
~ Henry Van Dyke
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
~ Tennesse Williams
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
~ Tennessee Williams
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
~ Tennessee Williams
There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
~ Tennessee Williams
Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else...
~ Tennessee Williams