William Shakespeare Courage Quotations

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Boldness be my friend.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.

O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

Where I could not be honest, I never yet was valiant.

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away