Courage Quotes

For courage mounteth with occasion. (King John)

Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always a tomorrow.

The man who says he would give his last drop of blood for a lofty cause really means the first drop – no one but a fool would risk a hemorrhage.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail. (Macbeth)

It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

‘Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but ’tis enough,’twill serve. (Romeo and Juliet)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

There’s a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it’s not a fence.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. (Julius Caesar)