Quotes About Courage

I don't think we'd ever really exchanged two words before, but I guess this was the time to start. All I said was, "If you ever do this again, I'll tell everyone. And if that doesn't work, I'll blind you.

Então, amanhã, eu vou embora. E não vou deixar que isso aconteça novamente com alguém. Vou fazer o que eu quiser fazer. Eu serei quem eu realmente sou. E vou descobrir o que é isso. Mas agora eu estou aqui com você. E eu quero saber quem você é, o que você precisa e o que você quer fazer.

Believe it or not, I'm really not that afraid of going. I'm not sure if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And I will believe the same about you. Love always, Charlie

have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time

That moment when you know you're not a sad story. You are alive.

Podemos tragarnos nuestro miedo o dejar que nos devore

Take the chance and live. Whatever strategy you choose, YOU WIN.

Do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear

Blood is the fertilizer of freedom. Maybe yours and mine.

If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.

Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous

At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

There were many who went in huddled procession, They knew not wither, But, at any rate, success or calamity Would attend all in equality. There was one who sought a new road, He went into direful thickets, And ultimately he died thus, alone; But they said he had courage.

Ma, I'm going to enlist.

These men were born to drill and die.             Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,             Make plain to them the excellence of killing             And a field where a thousand corpses lie.

He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them. Also

The youth perceived that the time had come. He was about to be measured. For a moment he felt in the face of his great trial like a babe, and the flesh over his heart seemed very thin.

If You Ain't Afraid, Go Do It Then

Eventually, his courage expended itself upon these objections. The debates drained him of his fire.

He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part—a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country—was in a crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could not flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand.

But these matters did not annoy him. It is almost certain that if the boat capsized he would have tumbled comfortably out upon the ocean as if he felt sure that it was a great soft mattress.

Stephen Crane

He saw that to be firm soldiers they must go forward.