More Quotes On Courage

More quotes on courage, boldness versus cowardice, and wisdom from historic literary and political figures including Shakespeare, Robert Kennedy, and Ernest Hemingway. This page focuses on quotations. See page one for sayings, proverbs, and phrases on courage.

Quotations

"Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous."
-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."
-Bible: Proverbs

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once."
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar [1599]

"Boldness be my friend!Arm me, audacity."
-William Shakespeare Cymbeline [1609-1610]

"None but the brave deserves the fair."
-John Dryden, Alexander's Feast [1697]

"Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage."
-Horace Walpole Memoirs of the Reign of King Goerge II [1757]

"My valor is certainly going!--it is sneaking of!--I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!"
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals [1775]

"What's courage? Failure of planning, that's all."
-David Hare, From Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and her Children [1995]

"For every ten men who are willing to face the guns of an enemy there is only one willing to brave the disapproval of his fellow, the censure of his colleagues, the wrath of his society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence."
-Robert Kennedy, speech in Cape Town, June 7, 1966.

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
Ernest Hemingway Men at War [1942]

In an interview with Dorothy Parker published in New Yorker in 1929, Hemingway was asked what he meant by "guts." He responded, "Grace under pressure."

"Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes!"
-J. M. Barrie, Rectorial Address at St. Andrews, May 3, 1922

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has ben said, it is the quality which guarantees all others."
-Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries [1932]

"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws."
-Winston Churchill, speech at Westminster Hall, Nov 30, 1954

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