Quotes About Courage

I had already learned to listen to the advice of others but to act only on my own beliefs, and to make my own decisions.

A sword?" I was astonished. "It is a man's weapon.

Louis L'Amour

They were men shaped and tempered to the harsh ways of a harsh land, strong in their sense of justice, ruthless in their demand for punishment, relentless in pursuit. From the desert they had carved their homes, and from the desert they drew their courage and their code, and the desert knows no mercy.

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do!

From Caprock Rancher : Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight . . . fight. Talk about it after.

Jeremiah stood there alone, his big hands empty, watching his brother go. Zeb was the last of his family, and when his family went west they never came back. Linus had come back, but that was before Jeremiah's time. None of the others ever had. There must be something out there, he said aloud. There must be something out there that gets 'em. Then, half smiling, he added, Maybe it's the varmint!

Louis L'Amour

fighting man. Loss Degner was bad all through and made no

I can ride anything that wears hair," she said

buckskin and maybe grabbing Lorna's bridle, too. It must have hurt when I flopped him into the saddle but he didn't make a sound, just glared at me. Taking up

A man is as big as his dreams are. If you want to make big tracks on the land, you got step out and start walking.

There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

Louis L'Amour

Don't lie to me, son, said Haskins. When you make a move that ain't called for and plumb necessary, cats will stop eating canned salmon when the tin is off! Loosen up, Jargan, and tell me what you want!

I suspect what I was doing would be called courageous. If I rescued them, it might even be considered an heroic action, but was it? Was I not conditioned by reading, by hearing, by understanding what I should do?

said, "went far out

If I make one last prayer I ask that your god grant me an enemy.

There's a little cowboy in all of us, a little frontier.

Where there's no law, all the strength can't be left in the hands of the lawless, so good men use guns, too.

followed my sister Lorna to the creek when she went for water. When I came upon them he had grabbed my sister by the arm, and I straightaway knocked him down.

We grew up to expect hardship and war. But a woman? I'd seen them follow their men to war, seen them seeking over battlefields to find their lonely dead, or the wounded who would die but for them. I have seen a woman pick up a man and carry him off the field to a place where he might have care.

you," Wildy said

She looked matters in the face and did something about them, and my mother had been such a woman, and Lila even more so.