courage Quotes

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.