William Shakespeare Quotes

Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

There's no substitute for guts.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who’ve no retreat.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

Courage makes victory possible.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

What we need now is endless courage.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.