Quotes About Courage

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.

Rational fears keep you alive, irrational fears keep you from living.

We're all optimists in our profession or we'd be forced to shoot ourselves. - Joshua Bloch

The best way to predict the future is to invent it." After all, life is a creative process.

El miedo es la posibilidad de ganar la libertad.

Fear is the possibility of freedom.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I'm telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

matter what the bastards do. So what if my dad beat my mum, so what if my hubby fucked the babysitter, so

Chance – invisible, furtive, and silent – is the vast canvas upon which all the rest of war is painted. Skill, courage, ruse, character, the elements of nature, technology and all the other components of war all operate against the backdrop of chance. Again and again, chance has raised up and brought down empires, snatched laurels from one hand to throw to another, and destroyed the most finely wrought plans.

Ich hatte Angst in ein Gasthaus zu gehen wenn Bauern drinnensaßen. Ich dachte mir daß sie nichts Gutes über mich denken. Ich überwand diese Angst mit der Vorstellung etwas Besonderes zu sein. Das Besondere bestand in meinem Leid. Ich war erfüllt von dem Maß meiner Leiden. Ich habe Angst diese Leiden aufzugeben weil ich nicht weiß was dann von mir übrigbleibt.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

From this humiliating self-estimate (of cowardice) Gandhi escaped by substituting for the Englishman's courage, which begins in self-assertion and proceeds to physical mastery, the courage which begins with self-control and proceeds to the nonviolent affirmation of truth.

But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars.

Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.

Have a drink," he said. "Helps the future go down easier.

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM. —ROBERT JARVIK

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2 000 people.

Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.

Virtue 'gainst fury shall advance the fight, and it to the combat soon shall put to flight, for the Old Roman Valor is not dead! Nor in the Italian's breasts, extinguish-ed.