Quotes About Courage

I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

Scars are but evidence of life.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Was that life? Well then, once more!