Quotes About Courage

Daddy nodded and took a deep breath. "We can do both," he said.

Ann M. Martin

said that metal underwear thing.

And then a frail little girl peered through the doorway. She was thin (I could tell that, even though she was dressed in an oversized top and oversized jeans), and a bright red scarf covered her head. Across the front of her T-shirt were the words: BALD IS BEAUTIFUL. She had to be Danielle Roberts.

Danielle sat on a desk and propped her feet on a chair. The 3rd graders immediately sat on the floor around her. The older kids followed, but more slowly. Why, I wondered, were the 4th and 5th graders so standoffish and afraid, but not the 3rd graders? Becca and Charlotte were not noted for their bravery.

Kristy Thomas is the president of the BSC. She's something else. When I first met Kristy, I was a little intimidated — she's very straightforward (sometimes she's even got a big mouth) and energetic. But now I like her, and admire her, a lot. She's always having these great ideas — and she acts on them, too. She's not just a dreamer.

Please get better, Danielle.

Two eleven-year-olds riding the subway alone?

And I knew it would.

Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

Lieutenant General William G. Boykin

Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out.

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

Mum, since when have you ever decided whether or not to do something based on an assumption that you will fail?" I asked. "If I think everyone else will be better than me, then you're right, I shouldn't try. But if that is my approach, maybe I should just preemptively admit defeat and retire now.

When Taimour was hit by a bullet in the left shoulder, he began to stagger toward the man who shot him, reaching out with his hands. He remembered the look in the soldier's eyes. 'He was about to cry,' Taimour said three years later.

So afraid to go outside, to be happy, to be with other people, because they do not understand what it is like.

Where are you and what you are doing is something you have done dozens of times before without having any problems. Recognize that you are going to get out of this- that you always get out of this, that you are going to live, that you won't go crazy. I am telling you that you will live, because you always live, because you are strong and beautiful.

When the shivering and shaking stops, I know that I will be okay, but my jaw is still tight, and my knees are knocking and the only thing I can do is stare at the candle flame because it is constant.

She doesn't care what anyone thinks and it is amazing.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)