Quotes About Courage

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

For some soldiers, there's a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.

We lived together for a long time,' he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, 'we have no need to fight.' I bet he is dead now. He had the vulnerable purity and courage that would ensure he was among the first to get whacked on the front.

Blessed are those who have eaten from the bread of love which is Jesus. This is the wine that gladdens human hearts. This is the wine which the lustful have drunk and they have become chaste, the sinners and they forgot the ways of unrighteousness, the drunkards and they became fasters, the rich and they became desirous of poverty, the poor and they became rich in hope, the sick and they became courageous, the fools and they became wise. Mystical Treatises, St. Isaac the Syrian, 7th Century

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Connection and love: … We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not fine them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate it is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

If wars were fought only by the men on the ground, the men facing one another in real battle, most wars would end quickly and sensibly. Men are smart and men are animals, in that they don't want to die so simply for so little.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.

The closet does have a benefit. It provides safety. Which at times is important. But remember, as long as you are in there, two other things will be too. Fear and shame.

It is better to live one day on the planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see so soon again, grant me only the power to think clearly, boldly, resolutely, no matter how unnerving the peril. Let me not fail them.