“Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.”
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.
“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
William Shakespeare
RiskReward
“The game's afoot.”
William Shakespeare
ActionAdventure
“By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once.”
William Shakespeare
FearlessnessAcceptance
“Hang out our banners on the outward walls; the cry is still 'They come!'”
William Shakespeare
DefianceBattle
“Be just, and fear not: let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's.”
William Shakespeare
IntegrityFearlessness
“What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and courage never to submit or yield.”
John Milton
Never Give UpWillpower
“My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.”
John Bunyan
LegacyValour
“Come one, come all! this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.”
Walter Scott
Standing FirmDefiance
“Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
FreedomUprising
“Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, and blew. 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.'”
Robert Browning
Facing FearQuest
“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
SacrificeHonour
“'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag,' she said.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
PatriotismDefiance
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king.”
Queen Elizabeth I
LeadershipWomen
“England expects that every man will do his duty.”
Horatio Nelson
DutyLeadership
“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
HopeLove
“Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ChallengesBravery
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
Henry David Thoreau
JusticeMoral Courage
“There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
Harriet Tubman
FreedomResolve
“Failure is impossible.”
Susan B. Anthony
DeterminationHope
“Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.”
Edith Cavell
CompassionSacrifice
“I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard.”
William Lloyd Garrison
ConvictionStanding Up
“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.”
Giuseppe Garibaldi
SacrificeLeadership
“I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
Ulysses S. Grant
PersistenceDetermination
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.”
Theodore Roosevelt
DaringLiving Boldly