Quotes About Courage

The only thing I fear for is Kazuki's heart, so as long as I'm sure of that I'm not scared of anyone else.

It might be difficult to gain the strength I need right now... but I need to try. I have to overcome my limitations.

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

Tony Montana Say hello to my little friend

Tony Montana You think you can take me You need a f***ing army if you gonna take me

Throw the puppy into the water. If it swims, well. If it sinks, well. But do not tie a rope around its throat and weight it with a brick and then assert its incapacity to keep afloat.

Was it courage that made her take the last step, or weakness? Was it loss that walked her to the edge, or a search for freedom?

Martin Luther King Jr., closing down one of his sermons in the early days in Montgomery, speaks of what it means to be a witness: Honesty impels me to admit that transformed nonconformity, which is always costly and never altogether comfortable, may mean walking through the valley of the shadow of suffering, losing a job, or having a six-year-old daughter ask, "Daddy, why do you have to go to jail so much?

Jesus often wetted his finger to find the direction of the acceptable winds, and instead of going with them, headed straight against them.

The top two lines on every prophet's job description look like this: Speak openly and clearly about what God is for. Speak openly and clearly about what God is against. The third and fourth lines look like this: I [God] am with you. Have courage. (But you may have to duck or die.)

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

what Lawrence had discovered on the battlefield was that while moments of heroism might certainly occur, the cumulative experience of war, its day-in, day-out brutalization, was utterly antithetical to the notion of leading a heroic life.

The mystery for why some people you know succeed or fail in life is how courageous they are in pulling people aside and how effective they are in those private conversations we never see.

As a rule, if you insist on speaking your mind, you will inevitably find yourself somewhere where everyone hates you.

Learning from mistakes requires three things: Putting yourself in situations where you can make interesting mistakes Having the self-confidence to admit to them Being courageous about making changes

You have to be willing to get burned if you want to develop the skill of putting out fires.

To start big projects, you must have the capacity for delusion. All the rational people, despite their brilliance, are too reasonable to start crazy things. And working against us in this sense was that we'd spent the day walking in the footsteps of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, spurring us all to believe in our grandest dreams.

Many smart people can recognize when there is a problem, but few expend the energy to find a solution, and then summon the courage to do it.

Permission, on creative matters, is for cowards.

you can look inside yourself and find strength to make choices you believe in, even if others do not agree with those choices.