Quotes About Courage

Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. Over

So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all...

Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.

Dad?' he whispered. 'You ain't got the stuff!

You're running a risk. That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain? That gallant Hungarian peasant girl who forced King John to sign the pledge at Runnymede and closed the boozers at half past ten?

Faith is belief plus unbelief and acting on the belief part.

Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense—that nobody can frighten me off from this thing. And no matter what happens, this is the validation of my life and action.

That would be the desirable situation most of the time. The five main virtues of the medieval knight might be brought in here. One is temperance, another is courage, another is love, another is loyalty, and another is courtesy. Courtesy is respect for the decorum of the society in which you are living.

Well, the old English tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a famous one.

The adventure is its own reward—but it's necessarily dangerous, having both negative and positive possibilities, all of them beyond control.

And this also, said Marlow suddenly, has been one of the dark places of the earth.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

And after all, one does not die of it. Die of what? I asked swiftly. Of being afraid.

Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.

The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.

Fatalism is born of the fear of failure, for we all believe that we carry success in our own hands, and we suspect that our hands are weak.

It was a great peace, as if the earth had been one grave, and for a time I stood there thinking mostly of the living who, buried in remote places out of the knowledge of mankind, are still fated to share in its tragic or grotesque miseries. In its noble struggles too -- who knows? The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world. It is valient enough to bear the burden, but where is the courage that would cast it off?

A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.

I went a little farther, then still a little farther - till I had gone so far that I don't know how I'll ever get back.

Men who come out here should have no entrails.

The sea—this truth must be confessed—has no generosity. No display of manly qualities—courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness—has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

While there's life there is hope, truly; but there is fear, too.