Courage quotes

“There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is called for.”
Robin Williams - John Keating

“For what I have done, Calpurnia, pardon. For what I'm about to do, courage.”
Warren William - Julius Caesar

- Oscar "Manny" Manheim: You got real guts! More guts than brains!
- Sara: What did you say?
- Oscar "Manny" Manheim: No brains!
- Sara: That's mean!
- Oscar "Manny" Manheim: That's the truth!
Jon Voight - Oscar "Manny" Manheim
Rebecca De Mornay - Sara

“Courage is my creed.”

Christina Applegate - Julia

“- Liaison Man: Right now the President's got his own problems with the Bay of Pigs, he doesn't want the astronauts' image tarnished. Nothing these guys do is gonna be called a failure... But you'd think the public'd know that they're just doing what monkeys have done?
- Chuck Yeager: Monkeys? Think a monkey knows he's sitting on top of a rocket...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Clennon - Liaison Man
Sam Shepard - Chuck Yeager

“Hundreds leave, a handful stay. Only one looks back.”
David Wenham - Dilios

“So what are you, Mr. Driscoll, a lion, or a chimpanzee?”

Thomas Kretschmann - Captain Englehorn

“- Carol Arnold: It was terrible sitting here waiting, wondering how your plan would work out.
- Charlie Chan: Courage greatest devotion to those we love.”
Pat Paterson - Carol Arnold
Warner Oland - Charlie Chan

“There are kingly virtues other than bravery. Courtesy is one of them.”
Freddie Jones - Ynyr

“I've seen a lot of brave men in my life - that's my business. But what that kid just done took real courage.”

William Demarest - Sgt. Heffelfinger

“It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.”
Derek Luke - Antwone Fisher

“- Hera, Hercules' Mother: You were willing to give your life to rescue this young woman.
- Zeus: For a true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.”

Samantha Eggar - Hera, Hercules' Mother
Rip Torn - Zeus

“What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage!”
Bert Lahr - The Cowardly Lion

“I am a coward, Doctor. If I'd been anything but a soldier I might have lived my whole life and concealed it.”
John Clements - Harry Faversham

“- Harry Potter: Why do they have to travel in packs? And how are you supposed to get one on their own to ask them?
- Ron Weasley: Blimey, Harry. You've slayed dragons. If you can't get a date, who can?
- Harry Potter: I think I'd take the dragon now.”

Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter
Rupert Grint - Ron Weasley

“You Americans are pussies without your missiles and money. You won't kill me. You don't have the balls.”
Karel Roden - Emil Slovak

“Basil's smarter than you! He's going to put you in jail. He's not afraid of a big, old, ugly, rat like youǃ”

Susanne Pollatschek - Olivia Flaversham

“- Tanya Kirbuk: Tell me, Dr. Floyd, what has happened to American bravery?
- Dr. Heywood Floyd: It's alive and well, thank you. What happened to Russian common sense?”
Helen Mirren - Tanya Kirbuk
Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd

“You're a great one for logic. I'm a great one for rushing in where angels fear to tread. We are both extremists. Reality has brought us somewhere in-between.”

William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“You gave me courage, Lola. Because of you I'm brave enough to be different.”
Alison Pill - Ella

“The other ships will still be looking to us, to the Black Pearl, to lead, and what will they see? Frightened bilgerats aboard a derelict ship? No, no they will see free men and freedom! And what the enemy will see, they will see the flash of our cannons, and they will hear the ringing of our swords, and they will know what we can do!”

Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann

“- French Cop: The American ambassador beats his wife?
- Nicolas Bardo: Yes, that's right. Yes, and she has the face to prove it.”
David Belle - French Cop
Antonio Banderas - Nicolas Bardo

“I lost a lot of things in life... but never a fight for money. I was trading Warrants for a close-out on old bad debts. The eight grand I was going to clear was enough to maintain the old man in a good, clean rest home for three years. The late round tank job - enough to convince myself I wasn't a complete coward.”
Josh Hartnett - Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert

“- Brenner: I'm gonna say that in my report, that you knew she was out there, that you went out and talked to her and left her there to die.
- Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: You don't have the balls.
- Brenner: Oh, you're wrong, sir... because that's just about all I have left.”

John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Cromwell - General Campbell

“- Hegai, the Royal Eunuch: You think an eunuch can know love? That before I was a cripple of a man, there was one that held my heart.
- Hadassah / Esther: What became of her?
- Hegai, the Royal Eunuch: I know not. I never found the courage to return to face her again.”
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister - Hegai, the Royal Eunuch
Tiffany Dupont - Hadassah / Esther