Quotes About Courage

Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"Like the poor cat i' the adage.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

The hare of whom the proverb goes,Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard.

Come the three corners of the world in arms,And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,If England to itself do rest but true.

If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...

By heaven methinks it were an easy leapTo pluck bright honor from the pale-fac'd moon,Or dive into the bottom of the deep,Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.

A Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy.

Thou hast done a deed whereat valor will weep.

I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.I think there be six Richmonds in the field.

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furiousIs to be frighted out of fear.

The sea being smooth,How many shallow bauble boats dare sailUpon her patient breast.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;For I am arm'd so strong in honestyThat they pass by me as the idle wind,Which I respect not.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:Follow your spirit; and, upon this chargeCry "God for Harry! England and Saint George!"

Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,And make death proud to take us.

William Shakespeare

O! the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, "Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Ambition,The soldier's virtue.

O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;Possess them not with fear; take from them nowThe sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbersPluck their hearts from them.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Macbeth: If we should fail—Lady Macbeth: We fail!But screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we'll not fail.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at.

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures: their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.