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Quotes about Courage


Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.

Sir Walter Raleigh

For courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare

The courageous captain of complements.

William Shakespeare

Rom. Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Mer. No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 't is enough, 't will serve.

William Shakespeare

Macb. If we should fail?
Lady M. We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we 'll not fail.

William Shakespeare

What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th' unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.

John Milton

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd,
Tempering each other in the victor's mind,
Alternately proclaim him good and great,
And make the hero and the man complete.

Joseph Addison

The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

Robert Blair

The courage of New England was the "courage of Conscience." It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

Rufus Choate

Courage, brother! do not stumble,
Though thy path be dark as night;
There's a star to guide the humble,
Trust in God and do the Right.

Norman Macleod

I sit beside my lonely fire
And pray for wisdom yet:
For calmness to remember
Or courage to forget.

Charles Hamilton Aïdé

Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:--
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in our own.

Adam Lindsay (Lionel Gordon) Gordon

Being nimble and light-footed, his father encouraged him to run in the Olympic race. "Yes," said he, "if there were any kings there to run with me."

Plutarch

Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them. Of young men, he liked them that blushed better than those who looked pale.

Plutarch

The gods looked with favour on superior courage.

Tacitus

Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."

Diogenes Laërtius

In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.

François Marie Arouet de Voltaire

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Courage! Though life is feeble, life persists

The war has been a means of bringing out men's goodness. Self-sacrifice, courage, love of comrades

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One who lacks courage to start has already finished.

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

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