Quotes About Courage

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Actually, we have no problems, we have opportunities for which we should give thanks. An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them…

DREAMS Never by many are marvels wrought, By one or two are the dreams first caught. . . The dreamer must toil when the odds are great, Must stand to failure and work and wait. Must keep his faith though he stand alone, Until the truth of his dream is known.

Back of every soldier is a woman.

Reckless of my mortality, Strengthen me to behold a face, To know the spirit of a beloved one Yet to endure, yet to dare!

But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life.

he couldn't help but laugh. "I was lying there bleeding, I needed 40 stitches, and everyone ran to Edgar. Only one guy came to me. Junior. He leaned over me as I lay on the ground, my eyelid hanging off, and told me, 'Edgar's hurt. You're screwed.

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

way, and I could see how her timorousness

Hairy and the Maidens.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

She was brave from excess of grief

La speranza è il mio Spirito guida".

People so often look with longing into a daydream future, while ignoring the importance of the present. We are all in danger of thinking, "Some day I shall be fulfilled. Some day I shall have the courage to start another life which will develop my talent," without ever considering the very practical use of that talent today in a way which will enrich other people's lives, develop the talent, and express the fact of being a creative creature.

You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared.

It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.

Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts.

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.