Quotes about courage
191 quotes from 139 people
Napoleon1769–1821Napoleon: In His Own Words (1916)
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.8Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz1885–1966Statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima (c. March—May 1945); “UNCOMMON VALOR WAS A COMMON VIRTUE” has been inscribed on the USMC War Memorial.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)
Thomas Paine1737–1809“The Forester’s Letters”, Letter III: To Cato, Pennsylvania Journal (24 April 1776)
Pericles494–429 BCPericles’ Funeral OrationCowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh’s Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661The future doesn’t belong to the faint-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Still Me (1999)
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962My Day (1935–1962)
