Quotes about Courage

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

It's a bad job," he said, when I had done; "but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us. No! Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!

Man is but mortal; and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend.

When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals...

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.

I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more?

Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been.

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646