Quotes About Courage

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

When you are getting beat to death, get your head out of the mixer.

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

If I die, what a beautiful death.

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times.

Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Better be killed than frightened to death.