Quotes About Courage

Strength and a stout heart are hazardous qualities where they cannot prevail.

My men will follow me in battle," I told him. "You'll see." "Of course they will. They know you're a fine fighter. But where there is no danger, your danger will be from them." I

A knight is a man who lives honorably and dies honorably, because he cares more for his honor than for his life. If his honor requires him to fight, he fights. He doesn't count his foes or measure their strength, because those things don't matter. They don't affect his decision.

Death is nothing, and for that reason you must fear it.

You have no power over me, neither you nor they. I am not afraid of pain, or of death. There is only one living woman I desire

She possessed the hopeful, hopeless courage of the poor, which is perhaps the most appealing of all human qualities

Death is nothing, and that's why you should fear it.

She would think I was an idiot, and I knew it. Only if I had not whistled, for the rest of my life I would remember that moment and how I had wanted to whistle but had not had the guts.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

I kept becoming larger in her presence, kept returning to who I would have been without the pretense of who I thought I should be.

Healing is about opening the wound and letting it heal from the inside out, exposing it to wind and sun and time, not piling bandages on it and screaming each time your skin gets caught in the adhesive tape

The recruits of 1914 have the look of ghosts. They are queuing up to be slaughtered: they are already dead.

You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.

She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do. And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?

Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.

And Solomon says, 'Fortunate is the man who is in dread of all, because he who possesses a fearless heart and a strong body will presume too much, and misfortune shall befall him.

For Solomon says, 'He who loves peril shall be vanquished by peril.

It was a good thing I wasn't afraid, because I was scared stiff.

If I have to go into that good night, I'm goin' gentle ; the hell with whoever said not to. That sucker's dead , man, so what did he know? Not even the courage of his convictions.

This nigger girl scared for white bwana.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.