Browsing Topic Best Courageous Man Quotes

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! … Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.

He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

The history of God’s people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as ‘the most courageous man in America.’ If that doesn’t say it all about the economist’s man-centric frame of reference, I don’t know what does.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow… Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.

He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.