Quotes About Courage

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Act as though it were impossible to fail,

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Tanr? bizi sevmese bile cesur bir anne bize yetebilirdi...

?nsan çok yaln?zken, bir tane daha kendinden do?uruyordu içinde, 'Korkma!' desin diye…

Bir kere teslim olursam ihtiyarlay?p ölürüm. Biri bana sar?l?rsa ayakta duramam. Çünkü… Çünkü kalbim ablukada kal?r o vakit. Dü?mana teslim olmak daha kolay. Onurun k?r?l?r en fazla, ama beni seven birine teslim olursam… Esir dü?erim.

Ustvari, svi mi živimo živote koje smo uspjeli ostvariti....kojih smo se manje bojali. Živote kojima smo bili zadovoljni.

It's a funny fact about humanity: fear and pain, rather than courage and joy, are diminished when they are shared

I've never been much for tears, anyway.

Great things befall when one is brave enough to do something bold, strange, and unusual.

Stu was six feet four inches of pure badass. He was a great guy to have around when you needed to run through a wall or knock down a tree.

He looked at me with a sly grin and said, "Kugler, Kugler—it's just a war. Throw your shit together in the A.M. We'll go get 'em. It'll be fun. You'll see." I didn't know what to make of him.

I loved the guy. He was five feet seven inches tall, meaner than a bear with a sore ass, shaved his head bald, and talked like he had a mouth full of gravel. He was one badass Marine. He weighed in about 210 and wanted no shit from no one.

If I didn't fly, I wouldn't be killed or wounded or captured. I would be alive, but I would be in that netherworld of failures and cowards. I would be disgraced without family or friends or profession. It would be a lonely world, inhabited only by that loathsome individual looking back each morning from the mirror.

We celebrate those comebacks because they inspire us to believe that seemingly impossible things really are possible.

Lyle Schaller asserted, "The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth is to say, 'It ain't workin'.'"6

To play it safe is the most risky decision we could make. To risk is the safest decision we can make with God. No matter the short-term implications, we must obey God with reckless abandon.

90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.

Being part of a great adventure is more than just enjoying new experiences; it can also be sticking to a dull, difficult path when our mind and body scream to run off to the right or left. Great adventures often involve tough choices and lonely stands for what we know to be true. They may require forging on when it would be so much easier to turn back. And adventures often come along at inconvenient times. They can seem more like interruptions than exciting opportunities.

It's fine to enjoy familiar surroundings and desire familiar comforts—as long as we understand there may be times when we can't have them. Sometimes we're called to larger duties—like a soldier leaving home to go off to war. Second thoughts at such times are natural—but the Bible tells us, "You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3 NKJV).

Mountaineering will never be a safe activity and would not be worth doing if it were.

the high peaks with small expeditions, or entirely alone. I guess you need some traumatic experiences or your life stagnates. A shock can actually prove very beneficial.