Quotes About Courage

They called me 'the angriest Negro in America.' I wouldn't deny that charge. I spoke exactly as I felt. 'I believe in anger. The Bible says there is a time for anger.

the greatest enemy a man can have...is fear

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

When you have nothing to lose, you have the freedom to thumb your nose at the rules set by others.

Just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous, and a dead shot.

No point in it for me to try to run away from such a thing, and well I knew it. Turn and run from a hant or a devil, it runs after you. If it catches you, then what?

No man was alone and friendless if he had a proper sword.

If we are going to die anyway...why be cautious? Why not risk all now, at this moment, in this adventure?

We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts... We can never be too generous or too kind.

Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur

Rares sont ceux qui ont assez de folie pour entreprendre de réaliser leurs rêves

laisser entrer quelqu'un dans sa vie, c'est abattre les murs qu'on a construits pour se protéger, pas attendre que l'autre les enfonce !

Anytime you are tempted to resort to violence, this is the bottom line: if you ain't ready to die for it or kill for it, don't do it.

The Duelists.

if necessary, leave. The party may be spoiled, you might not be able to see the end of the movie, etc. so what? It's better than getting your head knocked in or being around to watch the stomping that is about to happen. somebody is going to get seriously hurt. That means hospitals and police—not fun, folks. oddly enough, when you are really tough, it's easier to walk away from this sort of thing.

Sometimes, said Miss Phillips, the thing you dread doing the very thing you should do, just so you can stop thinking about it.

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, How unlucky that this should happen to me! Not at all! Say instead, How lucky that I am not broken by what has happened and am not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation or complaint.

strength and honor

When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being—and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners. To react like that brings you closer to impassivity—and so to strength. Pain is the opposite of strength, and so is anger. Both are things we suffer from, and yield to.

It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

All men die, but that not all men die whining

7. Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?