Quotes About Courage

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?

Given some recent events, he'd come to doubt whether being a great warrior was all some made it out to be. But now he'd seen great warriors save the entire corbi race. And Liala had led them, not with bravado and shouting, but with calculation, patience and reason. Being a warrior, then, was more than just one thing. The best warriors, like Liala, Styx, Captain Debogande and Major Thakur, were far more than just brave and dangerous.

Civilians and pop-culture psychologists talk as though achieving bravery is the end of the journey. It's not, it's the beginning. And after learning bravery, you must learn to deal with pain. Because after true bravery, there's always pain." Lisbeth's smile turned sad. "Unless you die." Trace nodded. "Yes. Unless you die. Bravery is dangerous. Cowards live longer.

Fear was debilitating, and she hated it — the thudding heart, the endless, breathless tension. She recalled what Major Thakur had said, that those who feared most often failed on the climb, or died. Fear was sometimes useful, but when the thing you feared was present in everything around you, and prevented you from dealing with your situation practically, it became a pointless distraction.

The world isn't going to end just because we've done everything wrong. Though, that would be easier.

You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.

A man who doesn't test the mettle of his soul isn't much of a man...

The only thing that ever scared him was finding out there was something he couldn't do, so he damn well made sure there was anything he couldn't.

But whatever lies beyond…You've helped me remember why it's worth fighting. Living. Even when the lines get so confusing you think you're losing your mind.

She inhaled sharply as he traced the line of her neck with the warm wetness. "I'm not afraid to bleed for you, Marguerite." His voice was a rough whisper against her ear. "I'll tell The Zone you're thinking it over. Don't disappoint me. Or yourself.

I know, sweetheart. I wish I could take away your fear, but the only way I know to do it is to help you face it. I'd face it for you if I could.

Someone drew you wings a long time ago and you've been trying to decide whether to fly away ever since.

There is nothing more powerful and frightening than choice. It's the field on which courage and love are tested.

Kinas övergång till kapitalism var med andra ord ett resultat av gräsrötternas initiativ och mod. Det fanns ingen plan för det – allt som gjorde Kina rikt hände utanför femårsplanerna.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

You say it as you understand it.

I'm not ready for this, I thought. Then somewhere, from the back of my mind, I remembered something the Spanish writer José Ortega y Gasset said: "We cannot put off living until we are ready…. Life is fired at us point-blank.

The writer James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

If you don't do this now, I told myself, you'll never do it, and you'll be lying on your deathbed seeing how many likes you got on Instagram. I climbed into the car and refused to look back.

Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.

Siempre hemos tenido miedo - me dijo-, pero a veces es más fuerte el amor a nuestros hijos que el miedo

the writer Neale Donald Walsch wrote: "Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.