| Author |
Quotes |
| Ernest Hemingway | Courage is grace under pressure. |
| Euripides | A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. |
| Euripides | This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. |
| Francesco Petrarch | It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. |
| Freda Adler | There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. |
| G K Chesterton | Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. |
| G K Chesterton | The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. |
| Gregory Corso | They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me. |
| Harper Lee | I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| Helen Blavatsky | Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice). |
| Henry Kissinger | We are all the President's men. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess That the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. |
| Herodotus | Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. |
| Homer | O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death. |
| Horatius Flaccus | The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. |
| Horatius Flaccus | One man with courage makes a majority. |
| J Askenberg | You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. |
| James A Garfield | If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. |
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