Quotes About Courage

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

If I had been as capable of trust as I am susceptible to fear I might have learned something new or some truth so very old we have all forgotten it.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches—that is the right and privilege of any free American.

All men at heart, she thought—at bottom should I say?—are really queer. The way ballplayers pat one another on the fannies, running onto the field or coming out of the huddle. The Greek quarterback and the nervous center. Queer as clams. Though of course none would have the decency or honesty or nerve to admit it.

O all brave cowboys dead and revived God only knows how you ever survived or stayed out of Hell with souls unshrived.

There comes a time in a man's life when he has to pull up stakes. Has to light out. Has to stop straddling, and start cutting, fence.

I had no fear of drowning in the water—I intended to drink it all.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air!

A trusty companion halves the journey and doubles the courage.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets

These were desperate times, the two men agreed; it was easy to stay at home and pull the bedcovers over your heads, but if nothing was done, someone would rip the bedcovers from your face and tug you naked into the street.

Who steals my purse steals trash," he said, "but who steals my sword steals honor itself, and him will I harry by wood and by water till I cleave him from his brainpan to his thighbone!

One of the least admirable things about people," said the small gentleman, "is the way they are afraid of whatever they don't understand.

When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.

All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.

They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano.

Don't tread on me.