Courage Quotes

"He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive."

- Seneca

"You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Given that all must die, it is better to die with distinction than to live long."

- Musonius Rufus

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

- Marcus Aurelius

"There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment."

- Nicolaus Copernicus

"Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them."

- Rita Levi-Montalcini

"The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind ... is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart."

- Albert Einstein

"Only a fool makes no experiments."

- Charles Darwin

"What one fool can do, another can."

- Richard Feynman

"Lise Meitner: a physicist who never lost her humanity."

- Otto Robert Frisch

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."

- Patrick Henry

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

- Billy Graham

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

- Ronald Reagan

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?"

- George Washington

"Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing."

- Emma Donoghue

"And we must never forget that it is the mighty arm of the American warrior — never bending, never breaking, never yielding — generation after generation that secured for us the blessings of a nation that still stands today as the beacon of liberty, democracy, and justice around the world."

- Joe Biden

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

- Douglas MacArthur

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

- Abraham Lincoln

"America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels."

- Claudia Pemberton

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form or a readiness to die."

- G.K. Chesterton

"This will remain the land of the free so long as it is the home of the brave."

- Elmer Davis

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death — that is heroism."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor—and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror."

- Michael N. Castle

"There is nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer."

- General Jimmy Doolittle

"The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree."

- Thomas Campbell

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."