Quotes About Courage

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

It was with bitter hearts and deadly thoughts that we, the remnant of the Six Hundred, rode back, leaving the flower of the Light Brigade dead or dying before those murderous Russian guns; — and it was all done, all over, in five-and-twenty minutes — less than a fast up-wind fox-hunt would have taken at home!

Bravo!" said Curly, as five minutes afterwards we passed out from the great hall door. "You are a brick, De Vigne, and no mistake. How splendidly you pitched into that rascally keeper!" De Vigne laughed. "It was a good bit of fun. Always stand up for your rights, my boy; if you don't, who will? I never was done yet in my life, and never intend to be.

Out campaigning, one is free from all that trash. Before the cannon's mouth men cannot stop to split straws; and with one's own life on a thread, one cannot stop to ruin another's character. I do not know how it is — I have read pretty widely, but philosophers never preached endurance to me as well as Nature.

I only know that a man who has the strength of the lion very often has also the tender touch of the dove.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

God himself favors the brave.

Fortune and love favour the brave.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Venus favors the bold.

Courage conquers all things.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

God himself helps those who dare.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Well, he took dying as naturally as he took living. Like a man should. Like I hope to." Again he looked at the pictures in his mind. "No play-acting nor last words. He just told good-by to the boys as we led his horse under the limb

I hardly ever went to the AA [alcoholics anonymous] meetings. I've just never felt comfortable in those places. It's my worst zone. I'll get up and sing my heart out in front of two hundred thousand people at a rock festival, but when I've got to talk about the way I feel to people I've never met before, I can't do it. There's nothing to hide behind.

Routine is the death to heroism.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself