Quotes About Courage

Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honor's at the stake.

A plague of all cowards, I say.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast;Ready with every nod to tumble downInto the fatal bowels of the deep.

What man dare, I dare:Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scornThe power of man, for none of woman bornShall harm Macbeth.

What though the mast be now blown overboard,The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?Yet lives our pilot still.

We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,As many other mannish cowards have.

Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back.

Give me another horse! bind up my wounds!

My fate cries out,And makes each petty artery in this bodyAs hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.

Tut, tut, good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better.

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd.

Saint George, that swing'd the dragon, and e'er sinceSits on his horse back at mine hostess' door.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front.

O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide!

Thou lily-liver'd boy.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.

Let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.

William Shakespeare

This day is call'd the feast of Crispian:He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd.And rouse him at the name of Crispian.