Quotes about Courage

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is—a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

Among the prisoners were a number of priests, and Joan took these under her protection and saved their lives. It was urged that they were most probably combatants in disguise, but she said: 'As to that, how can any tell? They wear the livery of God, and if even one of these wears it rightfully, surely it were better that all the guilty should escape than that we have upon our hands the blood of that innocent man. I will lodge them where I lodge, and feed them, and sent them away in safety.

To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence

Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.