Quotes About Courage

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

Fear is faith that it won't work out.

High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Success is that old ABC-Ability Breaks and Courage.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Mere shame couldn't, after all, be counted on to provide the escape of death.

that he was no stranger to budmashing, barnshooting

Terror is an emanation of virtue.