Quotes About Courage

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

Some people have more guts than brains.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right .

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

DARE to Dream the Impossible Dream.....DARE to DREAM SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

Dad used to say, "Death is a part of it all." I say it's the ugly part. But it's why I'm here, why Eiger climbers come. We come because they died, and by dying they created this legend, and we want to be a part of the legend, without dying.

La traición nunca prospera, cual será la razón? Que si prospera, nadie osa llamarla traición.

Then let me tell you a thing I've learned in my eighty-nine years. This house, the friends and memories—I'd trade it all for a chance to do what that young woman just did: a noble act, freely undertaken. How many of us have such a chance? And how many the courage to take it?

War is personal, kid. You're surrounded by other soldiers, but you're fundamentally alone. Every combat soldier will tell you the same. You pull the trigger, and a man dies. You paint a tree with his brains or spill his guts out in the mud. The how of it don't signify, except in the nightmares, maybe, or what you see in the mirror first time you find the courage to look.

Nothing felt certain, so I made a choice. Hope, I decided. I would wake to a sense of hope. I

not everyone could walk into the dark and make the hard choice.

For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own. But that's the way it was. What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled - his path, his choices, and no looking back.

Cedar," he said. "Pine. Spruce. Laurel." "Yeah. So?" "They're supposed to be sacred." He touched them again, each in turn. "Wisdom. Strength. Courage. Perseverance. You're supposed to burn them.

At that moment, though, she stood there on stage, perched atop a pair of ruby-red heels, looking less like Eliza Doolittle than Dorothy; the girl swept up in the cyclone, lifted out of her black-and-white world and deposited in a Technicolor Oz.

Looking back, all he could see was a swirling pillar of ash and bones behind him. But ahead, there was someone standing on the surface of the water! Suddenly, a strong hand plunged through the watery roiling veil and held his arm fast. It jerked, and Dietrich shuddered. The hand lifted him straight up--into the warmth, into the light. "This is the end--for me the beginning of life.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.