Quotes About Courage

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

Vivas to those who have fail'd! And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea! And to those themselves who sank in the sea! And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes! And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!

Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...

And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.

Resist much.

I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

Mantén tu rostro siempre hacia la luz del sol, y las sombras caerán detrás de ti.

The boy I love, the same becomes a man not through derived power but in his own right, Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear, Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak, Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than a wound cuts, First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo, Preferring scars and faces pitted with smallpox over all latherers and those that keep out the sun.

Caution seldom goes far enough.

I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Let your barbaric yop be heard through the rooftops!

I will not be outfaced by irrational things, I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me

O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations!

The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it.

The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.

Worse and worse...Can't you stand it? Are you retreating? Is this hour with the living too dead for you?

Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong.

O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

Listen! I will be honest with you, I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes