#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.”

“If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.”

“Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.”

“We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.”

“Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.”

“What man dare, I dare.Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.”

“I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.”

“Be not afraid of greatness.”

“Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.”

“But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.”

“By how much unexpected, by so muchWe must awake endeavour for defence;For courage mounteth with occasion.”

“Put onThe dauntless spirit of resolution.”

“Where I could not be honest,I never yet was valiant.”

“English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.”

“Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual”

“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”

“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”

“I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.”

“To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)”

“Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark”

“The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.”

“Chain me with roaring bears;Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;Or bid me go into a new-made grave,And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.”

“Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.”

“Faint heart never won fair maid.”