Quotes About Courage

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, "King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." (Dan. 3:16–18 NIV)

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracle And cures and healing wells.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.

You lose more of yourself than you redeem doing the decent thing. Keep at a tangent When they make the circle wide, it's time to swim Out on your own and fill the element with signatures on your own frequency.

Wyrd oft nered unfaegne, eorl, ponne his ellen deah. Often, for undaunted courage, fate spares the man it has not already marked.

Let whoever can win glory before death.

He knows he can trample down you Danes to his heart's content, humiliate and murder without fear of reprisal. But he will find me different. I will show him how Geats shape to kill in the heat of battle.

Chorus: Steadfast Antigone, Never before did Death Open his stone door To one so radiant. You would not live a lie. Vindicated, lauded, Age and disease outwitted, YOu go with head held high.

The fabled warrior in his warshirt and helmet trusted in his own strength entirely and went under the crag. No coward path.

Famous for his deeds a warrior may be, but it remains a mystery where his life will end, when he may no longer dwell in the mead-hall among his own.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

I shall gain glory or die.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast companions will stand by him and hold the line.

Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.

If our lives are brief and undirected, at least we can take pride in our mutual courage as we struggle to understand things much greater than ourselves.

In a dark time, the mind begins to see.

This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.

Dispose of everything that was lost. There's no time to dream about something that won't come back. I must look forward. Forward.

My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.