Quotes About Courage

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.