Quotes About Courage

If you want a decision, go to the point of danger.

How did you do it?" we asked Don. "How did you make it to the top of Mount Rainier on one leg?" "One hop at a time," he said.

Pickett's charge represented the Confederate war effort in microcosm: matchless valor, apparent initial success, and ultimate disaster.

Hermann Buhl with K2. First

As a follower of Jesus through faith in Him, the Holy Spirit is your only hope of ever consistently acting like a man. He is the courage to make right choices, the guide toward truth and away from error, the source of our comfort, and the provider of our strength. His primary tool is the Word of God.

Faith doesn't grow or deepen when we cower in secrecy. Faith strengthens as we go public.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love" (1 Corinthians 16:13–14).

From the furnace of manifest presence, born of unashamed adoration and unapologetic preaching, comes an army of worshippers unafraid in their witness, determined to see others discover what they have found in the LORD.

Tell them," God said through Isaiah, "hard times are coming, but don't give up—now or ever. Don't let them underestimate My power to reorder the universe. Tell them to keep trusting Me and living the way I told them to in spite of what's coming.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

the unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision. My

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity; if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. Erwin Rommel

Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can't give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that when you go backwards it won't be too far backwards, so that when you start going forwards again you won't have too much to catch up

I guess true courage is when you're really scared but you still do it.

Real religion," said Macmurray, has a different maxim: "Fear not; the things you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

though I was by that point rather fond of Saint Jude, I was afraid of what my friends might say if they saw a strange plastic statue standing on my dresser. So Saint Jude was stuffed inside my sock drawer, and was brought out of the drawer only on special occasions.

Excellent. It looks like we've got it all worked out for me to join a group of men sworn to kill me so we can face off with a dragon that melts stone with his breath." She grinned. "And Stagger used to complain that I never planned ahead.

How people admire the courage of the chevalier in the field, charging the enemy, when true courage is the knight who defies his friends.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

You don't fear so you live, you live so you fear.

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.