Quotes About Courage

He always wanted to leap and tear the throat out of a problem. He took no aesthetic pleasure in measuring a problem and living with it for a time before deciding it was even desireable to try to slay it. In short, he was more quick than wise. He never appreciated the comfort that a worthy enemy could provide.

Wherever a great heart throbs and rages, wherever a liberating thought flares up, there Athena is present, summoned rather by heroic readiness than by humble supplication. From her own lips we hear that she is attracted by prowess, not by good will or devotion to her person. The men who can most surely rely upon her offer her no unusual reverence, and it is unthinkable that her assistance should ever be motivated by the exemplary obedience of her protégés.

He opened his eyes to see the dented skull cap, still on the chair where Henry had left it. He looked at it a long while, knowing that it was far better to accept it than to turn away and forever fear it.

Co se dá d?lat," ?ekl Warrington, "už nevyhrajeme. Vzdáme to." Ste byl jako bez sebe. "Je p?ece jedno, že nebudeme první. Ale vzdát se? Nikdy!

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Through the long years of isolation and suffering, God had led me to an understanding of life and his love that only those who have experienced it can fathom. He had stripped away from me many of the external consolations, physical and religious, that men rely on and had left me with a core of seemingly simple truths to guide me. And yet what a profound difference they had made in my life, what strength they gave me, what courage to go on!

It is much easier to see the redemptive role of pain and suffering in God's plan if you are not actually undergoing pain and suffering. It was only by struggling with such feelings, however, that growth occurred. Each victory over discouragement gave an increase in spiritual courage; every success, however fleeting, in finding the hand of God behind all things, made it easier to recapture the sense of his purpose in a new day of seemingly senseless

He wants men of greatest generosity and self-sacrificing," he wrote, "who renounce their own will and embrace his will instead." So, "Lord, if that is thy will in regard to me, unworthy one, I embrace it fully and promise with thy grace to remain faithful to the end to thy most holy will. This is my life, my joy, my strength and courage.

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.

War is the greatest human experience that men have passed through for many centuries. But only when we know, through their own words, the full horror of what they experienced, and the depth and complexity of their feelings when under duress, can we appreciate how they held together and saved the world from despotism.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Try and get off with Major Butt

and PWD was soon on the air again. Beyond the perimeter, Snowy Rhoades took charge of mopping up the scattered Japanese. Learning that a small party was hiding up a river near the southeast coast, he loaded a barge with eighteen U.S. infantry and ten armed natives and went after them. They

Stelle Dich an den Abrgund der Hölle Und tanze zur Musik der Sterne!

Wenn es sein muss, trete ich auch Zwerge!

but I was urged on by a courage born of despair.

There are worse things in life than dragons. Falling in love, for instance.

If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.

Only those intrepid souls who are prepared to join Yarnspinner on his perilous journey should read this book. We wish the rest of you a long, safe, unutterably dull and boring life!

Man sagt, Verrückte verspüren manchmal in aussichtslosen Situationen eine unsinnige Gelassenheit.

Sie ist schon da, was?", fragte Homunkoloss. "Wer ist da?" "Die größte aller Gefahren." "Die größte aller Gefahren? Hier? Wo? Wo ist sie?" Ich sah mich panisch um, nach einer fetten Schlange oder einer giftigen Tunnelspinne, aber da war nichts. "Sie steckt in dir", sagte Homunkoloss. "Die Furcht." (S. 436)

Never Die Easy