Quotes About Courage

noble cause after all; maybe we were fighting against a cruel and vicious enemy that was in the service of an aggressive, hateful ideology with designs on enslaving other peoples and other countries; maybe—just maybe—we were doing the right thing.

Phillip Jennings

Leave now and live, or stay here and die. Your choice.

I'm already a monster!" she shrieked. "No, you're not!" Tom managed to heave himself to his knees. "You're my friend!" he shouted.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

Sing of my deeds Tell of my combats How I fought the treacherous demons Forgive my failings And bestow on me peace

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. —LORD BYRON

You have courage, minstrel," said Piros. Alaric shook his head. "Less than you think, good Piros. But I have considerable curiosity, and that sometimes masquerades as courage.

God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

I can feel my heart growing daily, which has its uncomfortable aspects, as if it could fall with the weight of love and break.

What avails monastic aspirations when, as Mark had said, religious geniuses were born and not made? Could not renouncing the world be a form of self-indulgence? Was not monasticism, in the end, as much an act of cowardice as courage?

Ümidini yitirsen bile, bir nebze ümit vard?r.

e con me porto un vento di paesaggi, una superba leggerezza, un candido coraggio di straniero. E tu non spandi che silenzio. O sconosciuto ch'eri tutto: il ragazzo perduto nella casa, il giovane borghese che cullava i falsi amori dell'amato cuore, ora sei nulla, IL NULLA , il puro errore.

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear.

I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]

Never retract, never explain, get things done and let them howl.