Quotes about courage
191 quotes from 139 people
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
Giordano Bruno1548–1600Response to his judges on his conviction as a heretic (1600), as reported by Gaspar Schopp in a letter to Conrad RittershausenYou see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906An Enemy of the People (1882), Act V
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
Henry Miller1891–1980The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14, p. 341
Sydney Smith1771–1845Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
Pericles494–429 BCPericles’ Funeral Oration
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Travesties (1974), Act I
Carl von Clausewitz1780–1831On War (1832), Book 1, Ch. 1The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Farewell address to Congress (1951)
John Paul Jones1747–1792Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778), as quoted in The Naval History of the United States (1890) by Willis John Abbot, p. 82- Bertrand Russell1872–1970Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 107
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (November 1815)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin1881–1955“The Evolution of Chastity” (February 1934), tr. René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Nobel lecture (1910)