Quotes About Courage

But MacCurdy's idea about near and remote misses suggests something quite different—that courage is in some sense acquired.

A few years later, she deliberately drove her car into a river—then, in typical fashion, wrote a poem about it: And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three.

We are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration.…When we have been afraid that we may panic in an air-raid, and, when it has happened, we have exhibited to others nothing but a calm exterior and we are now safe, the contrast between the previous apprehension and the present relief and feeling of security promotes a self-confidence that is the very father and mother of courage.

just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous

I'd rather have somebody who is real stupid but did something—even if it's wrong he did something—than have somebody who'd vacillate and do nothing." That's what LeMay values.

Rarely does someone start a revolution alone, at his mother's kitchen table.

And she knew nothing whatever of what all too recently he had gone through, his fall in the Calle Nicaragua, his aplomb, coolness, even bravery there—the Burke's Irish whiskey! What a world.

As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set... then the flavor is gone.

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

The divers were the bravest of us. They gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well.

I'll be back always sounded a little girly to me.

The fears you run from run to you.

Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.