Quotes About Courage

I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Being resilient is the essence of my life.

Today let us all ask ourselves whether we are afraid of what God might ask, or of what he does ask.... Do I truly let God into my life? How do I answer him?

I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

Any life worth living is going to have risks

Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.