Quotes About Courage

Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

123. To confess a Fault, that is none, out of Fear, is indeed mean: But not to be afraid of standing in one, is Brutish.

Chi è pronto a dar via le proprie libertà fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza, non merita né la libertà né la sicurezza.

Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

I'm a firm believer that, from the time you're born until the second your last breath has been drawn from your body, our lives are all about taking risks. It's how you respond to those risks, when everything is on the line, which truly defines a person's life.

Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on.

Hast du manchmal Angst?", fragt er. "Ich meine nicht Angst vor einer Prüfung. Oder dem Erzieher. Sondern so richtig Angst. So Angst vor dem Leben. Weißt du?" Troy schluckt. Er beugt sich nach vorn. "Leben ist Angst haben", sage ich. Mir wird unangenehm. Eigentlich habe ich noch nie darüber nachgedacht. Aber ich glaube, es stimmt.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

Fear beats logic every time,

Fight back. Bite back.

A cowardly man thinks he will ever live, if warfare he avoids; but old age will give him no peace, though spears may spare him.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

real men cry, real men have feelings.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.

You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live.

Most fled when their villages and towns came under Jewish attack or out of fear of future attack. They wished to move out of harm's way.

People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.

Seeing ourselves reflected in stories gives people the courage to keep doing what they are doing or make a change.

For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.

Reflection makes men cowards.

My music is a reflection of my way of thinking, and I take risks because I know I must. If I win, I win, and if I don't, I still win.