Quotes About Courage

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

But how could you know the limits of your courage if you never put it to the test?

We should've been different breeds. There can only be one lion in a small cage. It's not important if the other lion is sleeping or crouching in the corner. The only important thing is that...it's a lion.

Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill.

Night or day, who cares about the time? Feel the adrenaline rushing down the spine. Take a little chance, for it is the time to dance

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone

I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Our fears arise from things we don't confront. Once we are willing to look fully and deeply at the source of a fear, it loses its power.

He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?

Maybe we need thousands of smaller heroes every day every day instead of the occasional big one.

You can train weapons and fighting techniques, but you can't train that kind of courage and willpower. You either have it or you don't.

Men's strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.

No Regrets.

He felt beyond himself. He felt for the first time in his adult life a shadow of fear in his heart--fear for her, for what he actually wanted from her--and for himself, for what he might do.

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

Little people with big dreams are reimagining the world.

Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life.

Some Christians take so few risks it's no wonder folks have a hard time believing in Heaven. Most of us live in such fear of death that it's as if no one really believes in resurrection anymore.

Ammon Hennacy, a Catholic Worker, said, "Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual.

This is prophetic work, and Christians are called to be the prophets of a new and better world, not just the chaplains of empire and defenders of the status quo.

Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort.

So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work.

Lord, what you call compassion, others call weakness. What you call conviction, others call dissidence. What you call love, others call mixing with sinners. We pray that we too might be found weak, dissident, and in bad company, especially if it means we are closer to you. Amen.