Quotes About Courage

Henri Philippe Pétain

Your playing small does not serve the world," said Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech. "Who are you not to be great?

your fears (and upping the ante, making the opposite statement not just the fear in reverse, but something even more attractive) empowers and energizes you to start thinking differently, to attract the kind of answers that,

Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Oh courage… oh yes! If only one had that… Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

Men Det maa ei hviskes stille. Sandheds Ven ei blot maa ville. Vær i Et og Alt dig Selv! Det er Sejrens Kunst, min Sjel! Som Stefanen mellem Stene maa du staae, om selv alene.

If you are afraid of death, you are afraid of life, for living your life leads to death. Until you face death and see its beauty, you will be afraid to really live—you will never properly burn the candle for fear of its end.

Noli nothis permittere te terere

Headed by Roger Conant, a man still clear to us as possessed of leadership and force, these four went southward and westward from Cape Ann and settled at a place called Naumkeag, to be better known in future as Salem.

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

I prefer the troubled ocean of war...to the tranquil, putrescent pool of ignominious peace.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Faith never makes a confession.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution — such call I good books.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.