Quotes About Courage

I value not the censures of the crowd.

he told Byam he had rather die than live upon the same earth with such dogs.

Nothing can defeat you, if you make up your mind to fight and nothing can save you, if you have accepted defeat.

The development of my own affair with mathematics had taught me an important lesson: one should be brutally honest with oneself about weaknesses, acknowledge them with courage and chart further course accordingly. For myself I had done this, but had Uncle Petros?

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

one should be brutally honest with oneself about weaknesses, acknowledge them with courage and chart further course accordingly.

Ask yourself, does this person make me feel good about myself? Do I feel safe, strong and free with this person? Those are the questions you need to ask....You have to be strong to truly be open.

My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong.

Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.

Yes! comfortable, warm reader. Men do not fear death, they fear the pain of dying.

We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint....

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Generally the risks were taken, for, on the whole, it is better to be a little over-bold than a little over-cautious, while always there was a something inside urging you to do it just because there was a certain risk, and you hardly liked not to do it. It is so easy to be afraid of being afraid!

A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honour as long as you can put one foot before the other.

And at the end, when Scott himself lay dying, he wrote to Mrs. Wilson: "I can do no more to comfort you, than to tell you that he died as he lived, a brave, true man—the best of comrades and staunchest of friends.

Men do not fear death, they fear the pain of dying.

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.

before dawn of another day I would be swimming for my life in mid-ocean, under water and on the surface, in a temperature of 28 degrees Fahrenheit!

We were the first that found that famous country:We marched by a king's name: we crossed the sierras:Unknown hardships we suffered: hunger.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life.