Quotes about Courage

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him. The whole six months afterwards, that I spent with Mr. Covey, he never laid the weight of his finger upon me in anger. He would occasionally say, he didn't want to get hold of me again. No, thought I, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence

I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of.

It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.

Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.