Quotes About Courage

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?

Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.

I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Life, on confidence, is an extraordinary and powerful thing

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

ROD RODDENBERRY There was a great quote that D. C. Fontana said about Nichelle Nichols and having a black officer on the bridge and what my father said to that. Apparently, he would get letters from the TV stations in the South saying they won't show Star Trek because there is a black officer, and he'd say, "Fuck off, then.

But one of the things I was proudest of with Deep Space Nine is that I began to realize that it takes a great deal more courage to stay and deal with problems that don't get solved than it is to go in, meet somebody, change their lives or have them teach us something, and then zoom out to the next person.

One word from thee, my Lord, one smile, one look, and I could face the cold, rough world again; And with that treasure in my heart could brook the wrath of devils and the scorn of men.

I did not know the work of mourning Is like carrying a bag of cement Up a mountain at night The mountaintop is not in sight Because there is no mountaintop Poor Sisyphus grief I did not know I would struggle Through a ragged underbrush Without an upward path ... Look closely and you will see Almost everyone carrying bags Of cement on their shoulders That's why it takes courage To get out of bed in the morning And climb into the day.

Look closely and you will see Almost everyone carrying bags Of cement on their shoulders That's why it takes courage To get out of bed in the morning And climb into the day

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

the disappearance in our lives of a sense of the sacred. With nothing to evoke awe, wonder, or devotion, we inevitably feel empty within, Maslow contended, for these are intrinsic human needs. In a similar way, we have lost genuine heroes; the very concept of heroism has become suspect, old-fashioned, and seemingly obsolete. The same has occurred with such traditional virtues as courage, fidelity, and reverence.