Quotes About Courage

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

the sword was of value only when a person of courage and restraint protected life with it.

Nursing a powerful drive, a daring leader who believed in God and his own destiny now bonded—through shared danger, a common language, and the breaking of caste barriers—with a Singh following where a majority, scholars tell us, were Jat clans who equated honour with revenge.

Khafi Khan would record that no Sikh prisoner accepted Islam to save his life.

Nihangs, the body of militant ascetics who for generations had served as 'the suicide squads of the Khalsa armies'.

Nalwa rose from his sickbed and led a counter-attack. In gory battles fought along the Khyber Pass, about 6,000 Punjabis and 11,000 Afghans were killed, but Nalwa and a son of Dost were among the dead.

Hari Singh Nalwa received four wounds: two from sabres, one from an arrow (which Nalwa pulled out himself), and the fourth from a gunshot. Before dying, he instructed his men not to give out word of his condition.

one who breaks an unjust law, must do it openly and lovingly

Ordered to open fire at unarmed protesters, Indian soldiers of the Empire's Garhwal Rifles, staged a satyagraha of their own and refused.

Sam Gamgee is the ultimate hero of The Lord of the Rings because he is the ultimate servant.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

And if you fall, don't FRET, Mo. The cains, the cranes, our LOVE will get you up.

wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)

fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both sart out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly.

Fear flushes clogged pores of perception.

Find tricks to keep yourself going," William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. "Anything you can do to trick yourself out of panicking, do it.

Tools are totems, an important weapon in the fight against fear.

The most understandable trap is to wait for fear to subside before starting one's journey. It doesn't, won't, and shouldn't. Too much good writing comes from writers on the edge. Trying to defeat or portage around normal writing anxieties merely postpones the day when we confront our fears directly and find the courage to write.

Are you incapable of doing what these men and women have done? Do you think them capable of achieving this by their own resources and not by the Lord their God? . . . Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable? Cast yourself upon him, do not be afraid. He will not withdraw himself so that you fall. Make the leap without anxiety, he will catch you and heal you.