Quotes About Courage

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we're not

When we are strongest—who draws back? Most merry—who falls down laughing? When we are very bad,—what can they do to us? —ARTHUR RIMBAUD

the world won't come to me,' he used to say, 'so I must go to it'—

it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Il mondo non mi verrà incontro, perciò devo andargli incontro io.

yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?

Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart.

It does not to do be frightened of things about which you know nothing,' he said. 'You are like children. Afraid of the dark.

Se penso, se mi figuro d'aver perso quest'occasione per paura o per comodo o per qualunque altro motivo, mi vengono i brividi.

If your deepest self is singing and coaxing you straight toward the bonfire, it it better to turn away? Or- like Boris- is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Your silence is not acceptable.

true. Put your foot down and demand it!

It was Andrew Jackson's motto, he reminded, that "if you temporize, you are lost.

Admiral Dahlgren's twenty-one-year-old son, Ulric, had lost a leg at Gettysburg. When he appeared at a Washington party, he was surrounded by pretty girls. They stayed by his side all night, refusing to dance, in tribute to the handsome colonel who had been known as an expert waltzer.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Shortly before she left for New York, she received an unwelcome present from South Carolina—a painting depicting Lincoln "with a rope around his neck, his feet chained and his body adorned with tar and feathers.

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

Moreover, Lincoln, unlike the brooding Chase, possessed a life-affirming humor and a profound resilience that lightened his despair and fortified his will.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

A thought to God is the right way to start off my Administration," he told them. "It will be the means to bring us out of the depths of despair.

Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment." But, he famously asserted, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

By the time they were in their late twenties, all four young men knew that they were leaders. In public service, they had found a calling. They had chosen to stand before the people and ask for their support, to make themselves vulnerable.

A severe attack of rheumatoid arthritis sent him to the hospital for six weeks at the end of 1918. Cautioned that he might be required to use a wheelchair for the remainder of his days, he said, "All right! I can work that way, too.