Quotes about courage
191 quotes from 139 people
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Still Me (1999)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756–1791Letter as published in The Letters of Mozart & His Family (1938) translated and edited by Emily Anderson, p. 1114.
William Tyndale1494–1536The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
John Paul Jones1747–1792Reply when asked whether his ship had struck, Battle of Flamborough Head (23 September 1779), as recalled by his first lieutenant, Richard Dale, in John Henry Sherburne’s Life and Character of John Paul Jones (1825); Jones’s own report gives no such words
Arthur Ashe1943–19931991 commencement address at Ohio Wesleyan UniversityLearn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Lines 435–436 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940).
Frank Herbert1920–1986Dune (1965), the Bene Gesserit Litany Against FearDown these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959“The Simple Art of Murder”, The Atlantic Monthly (December 1944)
Umberto Eco1932–2016“Why Are They Laughing In Those Cages?”, in Travels in Hyperreality: Essays (1986), Ch. III: The Gods of the Underworld, p. 122
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Gertrude (1910), p. 236
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Time Enough for Love (1973)- KKKen Kesey1935–2001The Paris Review interview (1994)
Martin Sheenborn 1940AARP magazine interview (2008)My strength doesn’t come from a lack of fear but from an overpowering sense of moral outrage.
Ilhan Omarborn 1982This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (2020)