Quotes About Courage

And he always stood up for the underdog--never realizing that because of his size he was one himself.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

Screw it. Bring on that sorry dragon! Comes down to it, I'll bet Hrundig knows a recipe for cooking the mangy beasts.

Nancy Ward was almost eighty years old. For a moment, Tiana was frozen by the sight. Half exultant—if she could be like that, at that age!—and half petrified. It was like watching some ancient, terrible creature, rising from its lair.

Damn! - I'd rather walk into something of my own accord than to be frogmarched into it." "So it says here in the file. James Mowry, twenty-six, restless and pigheaded. Can be trusted to do anything at all - provided the alternative is worse." "You sound like my father. Did he tell you that?" "The Service does not reveal its sources of information.

Listen through your screams to the wind still whispering: Don't give up -- Surrender!

Always run to, not from, it gives your life purpose.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Anger is the prelude to courage.

Like the fabled Charge of the Light Brigade, Farnsworth's Charge was brave, memorable, and fruitless.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Then suddenly there was a flash, and thunder pealed. Lassie hesitated and whined in a quick, querulous tone. She was frightened. It is little use to blame a dog for having fear. A dog has so many braveries that its few fears do not cancel them out. And truth to tell, there are few collies that can stand thunder and lightning.

For a dog is not like a cat. Like men, a dog has learnt to fear heights. And yet it was the only way.

It is little use to blame a dog for having fear. A dog has so many braveries that its few fears do not cancel them out.

Ah, war – machine wars. Bullets took them all. The brave and the cowardly, the weak and the fine strong ones like Dannie. And it wasn't the dying that took bravery, then, for cowards could die. It was the living that took bravery – living in that mud and rain and cold and keeping the spirit strong through it all. That was the bravery.

He pried your fingers loose from any rock of comfort you clung to in the treacherous waters of human life and laughed if you drowned. Instead of a beatific smile, Roshi offered a sarcastic smirk.

Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a painful boil.

As men, we must not become lethargic in our vigilance against things that would attempt to destroy manhood.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will:

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence." —

He . . . said a short prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.