Quotes About Courage

Je hebt het hart van een leeuw, Coriander. Je bent dapper genoeg om de kamer van de koningin binnen te gaan, flink genoeg om een wit ros te aaien, niet te bang om een prins te redden.

And the guy broke an arm. Penny Turner is one strong

So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

Caution is good, but sometimes courage is better.

Once you see the glimmer of an opening, shove your foot into the crack.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion just waiting to happen.

Robert and I decided last night that we are going to fight this thing with every ounce of strength that we have, she declared. We will not give in to it as long as the Lord gives us breath. We will fight it minute by minute and hour by hour, Meteor. But we will never give up. Our love and faith will get us through this dark time.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

People see what they want to see. People say what they like to say. People hear what they always try to listen. People always in busy to put you down or break you down. They won't give you the courage to go ahead. They always after you and try their best to end you. But never give up. Never let yourself down. You should and must keep it in your mind.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized.

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

everybody was afraid and that the trick was to learn to function with fear.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.