Quotes About Courage

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity.

It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.

There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear.

You'll laugh at me, of course"—Geoffrey smiled a hasty and unconvincing negative—"but in the long run it is the people who dream of being men of action who are the men of action. Admittedly Don Quixote made a fool of himself with the windmills, but when all's said and done, there probably were giants about.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

One person who met him during these dark days was Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. After watching Roosevelt in action at a literary dinner table, and afterward dispensing summary justice in the police courts, Stoker wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other.

The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide, But forth vnto the darksome hole he went, And looked in:his glistring armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade

Yet nothing did he dread, but euer was ydrad.

How over that same door was likewise writ,Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold.

A bold bad man.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The greatest gift a writer can give himself is permission to write badly.

Most men are not secure enough to love a woman who packs a gun, wears a badge, and can put people in jail. Unmarried policewomen tell me that the men with courage enough to ask for a date often prove to be weirdos with strange ideas, some of them relating to handcuffs and uniforms.

with superb courage, and the decision and intelligence of a man.

You can run, but what are you running from? Your life? You can't run away from your life.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.