Courage Quotes

“Boldness be my friend.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

“Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.”

“God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!”

“Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!”

“There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind”

“Experience teacheth usThat resolution 's a sole help at need:And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,That we be bold in every enterprise:Then since there is no way, but fight or die,Be resolute, my lord, for victory.”

“I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none”

“If we are mark'd to die, we are enowTo do our country loss; and if to live,The fewer men, the greater share of honour.God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.”

“Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.”

“For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

“Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.”

“O, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”

“Be just, and fear not.”

“For I am fresh of spirit, and resolvedTo meet all perils very constantly.”

“What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say”

“He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.”

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!”

“What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”

“'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

“Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well”

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

“Why, what should be the fear?I do not set my life at a pin's fee.”

“In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,To reap the harvest of perpetual peaceBy this one bloody trial of sharp war.”