Quotes about Courage

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Mars hates those who delay; but if you fear the weight of arms, now then go forth unarmed

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life—not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

We are still fighters.