Quotes About Courage

What have we got to lose?" I said. Nightingale looked up and gave me a strange, sad smile. "Oh, everything, Peter," he said. "But then, such is life.

Ah, yes, librarianship,' said Ms Winstanley. 'It's not for the faint hearted.

But I wasn't some terrified peasant, I was an apprentice and I had been trained by the man who led the reguard at Ettersberg.

Kumar and I ended up stuffing tissue paper up our nostrils, but agreed that if we had to come down again more drastic action would be justified - like amputation.

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

It's always the easy way out, being an existential chicken. Not really being there. It's harder, it's riskier, to be present.

He'd say "I love you" to every man in the squad before rolling out, say it straight, with no joking or smart-ass lilt and no warbly Christian smarm in it either, just that brisk declaration like he was tightening the seat belts around everyone's soul.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

Keep your head up. Keep your heart strong

I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

I've been worrying that we all live our lives in the confines of fear

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

but these guys were also so pitiful—I pictured them sitting in their La-Z-Boys, working up the courage to make their obscene call, maybe jacking off after from all the excitement, if not during—I couldn't really take them seriously, or only took them seriously as specimens of the ugly fragility of masculinity.

And so, as the bombs fell around him, this heroic British undertaker sat in his own grave, wearing his swimming trunks and a helmet, drinking a nice up of tea.

Here was heroism, but here, too, was mounted suicide in full-dress costume.

In a word, adventure to Chapman is the breath of life. Given adventure he has the courage to achieve the unbelievable.

Never run away," Jock Lewes instructed them. "Because once you start running, you've stopped thinking.

Ben Macintyre

Mayne never told anyone else about his secret attempt to find the remains of his beloved friend, for that would have revealed the other, gentler side to Paddy Mayne, and a hidden broken heart.

To overcome frailty is one definition of courage; to acknowledge it with honesty is another.

One does not look twice at an offer of enrollment in an elite force.

I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it kills them.