Quotes about Courage

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress July 4th, 1861

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.