Quotes About Courage

During tragedy, the same is true. When we get diagnosed with a difficult disease, when we lose a dear friend, when things fall apart in our lives, we seldom long for someone to come in and fix it with words. No words will ever take away our pain. No, we long for someone to have the courage to be with us, sit there with us, cry with us. In other words, we want someone to be fully present with us.

Fight we will, in any event; and if you but do your duty, success is sure to crown our efforts.

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it

Lord, I do not believe all that my eyes see, all that my body feels, and all that the enemy would bring against me.

At one point, even the Head Penguin suggested that the right step might be to slow down. But Alice wouldn't hear of it. "We are constantly at risk of losing our courage. Some birds are already suggesting we wait until next winter. Then, if we are still alive, they will say the danger was overstated and that any change is not needed." It was a good point.

Question: Is there one takeaway you want readers to carry with them? JK: Yes. In these turbulent times, sufficient leadership, not just from the top couple of people, is very important, far too rare, and it does not have to be that way. It often starts with only one person not looking away or waiting for something to happen, but seizing opportunities to act where others see problems, fault or threat. Why couldn't that one person be you, or anyone reading this interview right now?

Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!

It is at this moment that I realize the best thing I ever did in my life was to marry this woman. She is willing to give up her life for her child. I know most parents would do the same. But how many mothers would give up everything that they love, everything that they will ever be able to do in the future for the "possibility and not the guarantee" of getting their child better. Now reduce the odds of success to less than 1%. How many mothers are still standing? She is.

When your dreams are big enough the odds just don't matter.

There was no way possible that I was going to have a life and not live it.

Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.

Uniqueness Leads To Great Success Some men see things as they are and say 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'why not?' --George Bernard Shaw English Dramatist (1856-1950)

Frequently, I hear people say, "The reason we can't go in is the giants. We must first take them down." I think perhaps a major reason we are not going in to possess the land is that we are more interested in giants than we are desperate to taste the honey of our inheritance.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

I've not yet begun to fight!

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I have not yet begun to fight!

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

That is why the capitalist press always praises the "courage" of the scab, who is allegedly standing up for "the freedom of the individual.

True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have.

O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.