Quotes About Courage

I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

There's a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.

Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

Lots of women have shown interest in becoming a part of our group and we hope that Soul Purpose will encourage more and more women to hit the road independently.

I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.

You only live once but in my case, twice. I'm indestructible.

Feigheit wird manchmal belohnt.

Asking "Why?" can work only where people feel free to speak their minds and the decision makers really listen. "Many employees who worked on the Fire Phone had serious doubts about it," concluded the journalist and author Brad Stone, who has written definitive histories of Amazon, "but no one, it seemed, had been brave or clever enough to take a stand and win an argument with their obstinate leader.

Man or woman......It doesn't matter! One of strength......And nobility......Is always a prince.

Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quella verità, tra quella verità e l'intelligenza del creato avrebbe optato per la prima.

Battuti. Io adoro gli uomini battuti.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. —Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours

one of the most decisive factors enduring a borderline situation is the WILL TO SURVIVE. -Reinhold Messner

In contrast, his parents considered climbing a completely useless and dangerous activity.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?

Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

Never follow the crowd.

A leader leads," Ragnar said, "and you can't ask men to risk death if you're not willing to risk it yourself.