Quotes About Courage

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head, don't sign up for the armies of anorexia or bulimia - act as if you were already free, calculate the odds, step out, remember the Code Duello - Smoke Pot /Eat Chicken/ Drink Tea.

Cheyenne snatched back her phone. "Someone took her brave pills today." "And washed them down with stupid juice," Casper added, cocking his gun.

Ultimately, though, Reagan considered human history a comedy– not a trifle or an absurdity, but a solemn story that would end in happiness... because God was the author, and God was good, and that was the kind of story he'd write. Reagan taught me to appreciate the uses of humor, but he also taught me to appreciate the meaning of humor. The world contains more good than bad, more courage than cowardice, and more reasons for smiles than for tears. Laughter is a profession of faith.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7

wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun.

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter Meredith

Once Is Enough, Miles Smeeton's thrilling (and even funny) account of his two separate and disastrous capsizes aboard his yacht Tzu Hang in the Southern Ocean west of Cape Horn.

Dumas's book, Alone Through the Roaring Forties

When you're lost in the Wild and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And you're sore as a boil it's according to Hoyle To cock your revolver…and die. But the Code of a Man says: "Fight all you can," And self-dissolution is barred. In hunger and woe, oh, it's easy to blow… It's the hell-served-for-breakfast that's hard.

Action conquers fear.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.

The Munich students provided a spectacular example of resistance put down by the Gestapo;

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

You see a boxer with a beautiful nose and you got a fighter without heart.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.

When, out of fear, we avoid conflict and appease people, we are false peacemakers. For

Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD" (Psalm 27:14)?

His grace is sufficient.