Quotes About Courage

There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.

Dear sir, you simply begin. There is no magic method of beginning. If a man standing on the edge of a swimming-bath and wanting to jump into the cold water should ask you, How do I begin to jump? you would merely reply, Just jump. Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

If you don't believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

dum spiro, spero -Part of the official state motto of South Carolina. Literally, While I breathe, I hope Or more loosely, Where there is life, there is hope.

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far

I won't go to their gas chambers! And my children won't go to their gas chambers. Bibi! Lonia! Richieu! Come here quickly!

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.

Yet if there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure.

There was no objection when he said: "I'm going after it." Nor did he expect there to be; his life was now his own, to do with as he pleased. He

dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.

Someone had once said that you could be terrified in space, but you could not be worried there.

could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery?

Both times he had won through, but he knew well enough that any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic.

THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (Theodore Gericault, 1791–1824)

But dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.

Nonsense," he laughed. "It's nothing to be afraid of. It's only a purr-pull peephole eater.

L'audace—toujours l'audace!

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

A man may take one step ahead of his culture and chance being called a genius. But if he takes two steps, he is certain to be called a menace, a madman, a fool.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

It's stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.