Quotes About Courage

Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Bryce Courtenay

The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

It is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

The path of the king is a lonely one, and few are fit to walk it.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.

It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

The journey of individuation is in this sense a continuous coming home to ourselves that gives us the ongoing courage to face the suffering involved in allowing our buried talents to emerge, and to realize the innate wisdom within us—that can only be forged by the fires of feelings and passion that bring our soul to an inner glow.

I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.

fortune always favors the bold.

Throughout his 720-page book Three Years of Arctic Service, Greely's

Orellana's achievement would later be called one of the world's greatest explorations, "something more than a journey, and more like a miraculous event.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.

The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.

To live without hope is to cease to live.

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

He had no individual interest . he was a real hero, our real leader . He was our role model.

Sir, do you know they've cut us off? We're entirely surrounded." "Those poor bastards," Puller said. "They've got us right where we want 'em. We can shoot in every direction now.

Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.