Quotes About Courage

I am not afraid of storms, for I'm still learning to sail my ship

Thou givest me such hope and courage, and I have nothing to give back bit a full heart and these empty hands

As we begin a work, remembering we needn't know how it'll turn out or whether it'll be successful might be comforting. And we can cultivate our ability to work despite confusion

There is something of a congruence here between my grandfather's terror propelling him across an ocean to America and mine and my husband's rushing us into a three-room apartment in Jersey City. In fact, each of my moves is remotely connected to feeling my life or well-being was threatened.

Tu dois aimer. Tu dois ressentir. C'est la raison pour laquelle tu es ici sur terre. Tu es ici pour mettre ton coeur en danger

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

The heavy winds couldn't blow her off course. She continued. Even when her heart clenched and her skin turned crackling cold it didn't matter, because the pure and naked part of her went on.

Despite being the target of so much public obloquy, Rockefeller seemed fearless.

What set Tarbell apart from Rockefeller was her intellectual daring and fearless curiosity.

Well, Grant, We've had the devil's own day, haven't we? Sherman remarked. Yes, replied Grant with a drag on his cigar. Lick 'em tomorrow though. p205

Seizing the moment, he had the courage to say, " Ã¢â'¬ËœThank you' is not enough, Mr. Rockefeller.

This refusal to truckle, bend, or bow to others, this insistence on dealing with other people on his own terms, time, and turf, distinguished Rockefeller throughout his career.

From the First Philippic of Demosthenes, he plucked a passage that summed up his conception of a leader as someone who would not pander to popular whims. "As a general marches at the head of his troops," so should wise politicians "march at the head of affairs, insomuch that they ought not to wait the event to know what measures to take, but the measures which they have taken ought to produce the event.

One morning, James burst into his office and started swearing violently at Rockefeller, who put his feet up on the desk with imperturbable poise and showed no sign of upset; a fine actor, he always had masterful control of his facial muscles. When James finished, Rockefeller said evenly, "Now James, you can knock my head off but you might as well understand that you can't scare me.

A man who succeeds in life must sometimes go against the current.

If it is a failure, I will take the loss.

You was the onlyest person that looked past my skin and past my meanness and saw that there was somebody on the inside worth savin...We all has more in common than we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.

I ran out of strong.

Ever man should have the courage to stand up and face the enemy,' I said, 'cause ever person that looks like a enemy on the outside ain't necessarily one on the inside. We all has more in common that we think. You stood up with courage and faced me when I was dangerous, and it changed my life. You loved me for who I was on the inside, the person God meant for me to be, the one that had just gotten lost for a while on some ugly roads in life.

Look, men, there is Jackson34 standing like a stone wall.

To add a dash of picturesqueness to her career, her husband, it was said, was doing his utmost to get rid of her; and although she had been in an aeroplane disaster, a fatal gala performance, two railway accidents, and a shipwreck, she always came back - smiling.

But if they had meant to murder me, the camel-lady was mysteriously murmuring to Monsignor Parr, they would not have put chocolate in the luncheon-basket; my courage returned to me at that!

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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.