“Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.”
William Shakespeare
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Courage Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COURAGE
Courage Quotes
Read 200 of the best courage quotes about bravery, facing fear, standing up for what's right and never giving up, from Shakespeare, Emerson, the Bible and more.
“He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart.”
William Shakespeare
CommitmentBattle
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”
William Shakespeare
BrotherhoodLoyalty
“Be bloody, bold, and resolute.”
William Shakespeare
BoldnessDetermination
“Courage mounteth with occasion.”
William Shakespeare
Rising To The ChallengeBravery
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
William Shakespeare
FearImagination
“Lay on, Macduff, and damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'”
William Shakespeare
Never Give UpBattle
“Here is Rhodes, jump here.”
Aesop
ActionProof
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HeroesPersistence
“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facing FearAction
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
KnowledgeFear
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.”
Henry David Thoreau
FearWisdom
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
Facing FearBravery
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain
Moral CourageIntegrity
“Courage is the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
VirtueCharacter
“Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
DutySacrifice
“Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
BraverySacrifice
“Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.”
William Ernest Henley
ResilienceNever Give Up
“I was ever a fighter, so - one fight more, the best and the last!”
Robert Browning
Fighting SpiritFacing Death
“No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere.”
Emily Brontë
FearlessnessFaith
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
Patrick Henry
FreedomConviction
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
PatriotismSacrifice
“I am not afraid; I was born to do this.”
Joan of Arc
PurposeFearlessness
“Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on limb too slight, feels it give way beneath him, yet sings, knowing he hath wings.”
Victor Hugo
FaithResilience
“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.”
Amelia Earhart
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