Courage Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.”

— Tom Spanbauer

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to humiliate others…

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

“Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a…

— Anonymous

“One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.”

— Amor Towles

“Man is frail. Man is prone to fallacies, errors, vice, and greed, but good iron never fails. Combine hard iron with a good man…

— John Matthews

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

— Democritus

“Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and…

— Aristotle

“The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who…

— Ortega y Gasset José

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson