Quotes About Courage

Three things make people want to change. One is that they hurt sufficiently.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip's leading knights. It was said later among the Christians' forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called out defiantly: 'Either I shall die today, or God willing, I will enter Acre.

Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory.

Thomas B. Buell

The measure of a man's real character is what he will do if he knew he would never be found out.

To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.

Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods... Lays of Ancient Rome

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.

John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave,His soul is marching on.

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross.

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Alas! For shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! But it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward.

The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

The combat deepens. On, ye brave,Who rush to glory or the grave!Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,And charge with all thy chivalry!

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right? He's dead alone who lacks her light!

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.