Quotes About Courage

But Jackie Robinson was a man of faith. I do not just mean faith in God, though he was indeed a religious man. He also had extraordinary faith in himself and his destiny. He believed deeply that he was the one meant to cross baseball's color line. He believed deeply that God would not have led him down this path only to fail. That faith filled him with something more powerful that confidence. He knew that we would succeed because to do anything less would be unthinkable.

Size and strength didn't intimidate Herman. As he told me later, no matter how big they grow, balls and eyes stay soft and a tire tool has no friends.

Now, in the living of my life, I've killed deadly men and dangerous animals and made love to four Chinese women, all of them on the same night and in the same wagon bed, and one of them with a wooden leg, which made things a mite difficult from time to time.

I don't get it," Raul said. "Why all this macho?" "When I say act like a man," Leonard said, "I mean act honorably and with courage. Macho has been turned into a bad word by turds who act like beasts, not men.

Well, we're tough," Leonard said. "Ain't nobody tough enough in the end," Reba said.

I'm always ready," Leonard said. "They pulled me out of my mama, I was ready for lunch and a fistfight.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

Just as Churchill stood alone against Hitler's war machine in 1940, it would now be Harry Truman's government standing alone against Stalin's designs on Western Europe seven years later.

On his desk in the Oval Office was a sign that read, "The Buck Stops Here," and as Truman would later observe, "The President—whoever he is—has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job.

Why don't you just tell him what he wants to know?" "I do not like bullies. And I have never responded well to threats of force."She paused. "Also, I believe he will kill me anyway." "Why?" "Because that is what he does.

You are very bold," he said, gripping her hand. "We will see how bold you are when I rip your nails out." "Go ahead," she said. "I feel nothing. I am already dead." Now Slavin's grin became real again. Real and hungry.

Whatever happens, I hope you get everything that you want out of life. You deserve it." "Well,"I said, turning away, "thanks." "I mean it, Perry. What happened tonight was not easy, but it had to be done. I could not have done it without you.

I put down the stack of pages and turned around to face him directly, just as he'd always taught me to do once I realized I was in for a fight.

I d-duh-don't know wh-why you even b-buh -bother b-buh-because in s-six y-yuh-years y-you're g-guh-going to be j-juh-just l-like—""Don't say that."Something inside me went cold. "I'm never going to be like him.

You should not be afraid of a little blood," Gobi said. "Life is full of it.

Courage has been described as "grace under pressure".

Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?

A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.

If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

The question shouldn't be "Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is "Why aren't all the Christians here?

I'm not saying I was scared. Okay, I was scared. He had an MP5. I had a Nikon.

Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is 'Why aren't all the Christians here?

If there is one thing I have learned in my lifetime of struggle, it is this: freedom isn't free.

Evil was defeated because good people rose to the challenge and refused to surrender.