Quotes About Courage

You have to take a stand when things aren't right.

The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.

Oh, John is clever enough. But what do brains avail a man if he does lack for backbone?

When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.

Henry did not lack for physical courage; his was a moral cowardice.

My father and brother were slain at Sandal Castle because they engaged a far superior force. It was daring, heroic, foolhardy…and fatal. I'll not make the same mistake.

What is a thing worth, if it comes with no risk?

Soldiers have many vices, but vanity is not amongst them. How could it be? What man is going to worry about his hair when he might lose his head?

War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

But somebody had to do something

Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

I want to live. I take them up like the male and female paper dolls and bang them together at the hips like chips of flint as if to strike sparks from them, I say Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well," Václav Havel, the Czech dissident, writer, and statesman, said, "but the certainty that it is worth doing no matter how it turns out.

When you don't have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against Ã¢â'¬Â¦ You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.

Our world opens up because we can let go. We can relinquish, and we are not afraid. We do not have to hold on.

The personal power of being confident and clear about our actions and saying what we know without holding back is described in the texts as 'the lions roar.

Taking in another's criticism, even when it's offered out of love, requires courage.

Vulnerability should be the thing that brings us closer than anything because we all share that.

In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.