“Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, and make death proud to take us.”
William Shakespeare
HonourFearlessness
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.
“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility: but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger.”
William Shakespeare
StrengthHumility
“Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'”
William Shakespeare
BattleRallying Cry
“I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.”
William Shakespeare
Never Give UpBattle
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”
William Shakespeare
HopeAction
“A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.”
William Shakespeare
CowardiceFunny
“The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.”
William Shakespeare
Standing UpUnderdog
“Why, courage then! What cannot be avoided 'twere childish weakness to lament or fear.”
William Shakespeare
AcceptanceFacing Fear
“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HeroesInstinct
“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ExperienceConfidence
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”
Henry David Thoreau
ConvictionMoral Courage
“Say not the struggle nought availeth, the labour and the wounds are vain.”
Arthur Hugh Clough
PerseveranceHope
“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.”
James Russell Lowell
Moral CourageDecisions
“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he that every man in arms should wish to be?”
William Wordsworth
HeroesCharacter
“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.”
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
GloryBoldness
“Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
HeroesAction
“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Living BoldlyLife
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
G. K. Chesterton
ParadoxBravery
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.”
Susan B. Anthony
ReformBoldness
“I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
Harriet Tubman
HeroesFreedom
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
Frederick Douglass
IntegrityMoral Courage
“Ain't I a woman?”
Sojourner Truth
EqualityStanding Up
“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”
Florence Nightingale
ResponsibilityDetermination
“It is not the critic who counts; the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”
Theodore Roosevelt
ActionDaring
“I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin.”
Joan of Arc
ConvictionIntegrity