Quotes About Courage

First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

One of the quips Reagan scribbled on a notepad after waking up after surgery was Winston Churchill's famous line from his autobiography My Early Life that "there is no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at without result.

He's been asleep since the war began. He knows this now. In defending himself from death he lost his grip on life. He thinks of Emina, risking her life to deliver expired pills to someone she's never met. Of the young man who ran into the street to save her when she was shot. Of the cellist who plays for those killed in a mortar attack. He could run now, but he doesn't.

I thought, Or maybe drowning wasn't as scary as what they had to face every day.

At a 1937 conference of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, Stalin's people applauded him for eleven consecutive minutes, fearing that the first to stop would be killed or sent to prison. Finally, one man stopped, the director of a paper factory. "To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down," writes Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. That same night the director of the paper factory was arrested and sent to prison for ten years.

Truth is stronger than lies, and love is stronger than fear.

But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay.

I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.

Ele escreveu: "Nada é mais contrário à pregação pura e livre do evangelho do que os dilemas de um coração covarde".[85]

If William Tyndale was anything, he was audacious—a man emboldened to take great risks in fulfilling his dangerous mission for God.

Without hope, the only thing that keeps you going is either momentum or fear.

Then the man said, 'Lord, I believe,' and he worshiped him" (verses 35–38). The man fell to his knees and began to publicly worship Jesus! He could have been stoned to death on the spot—but he didn't care! His heart responded to the Savior's words with a full belief and total commitment to Jesus as God's anointed one. Without concern that he might die on the same day he had received his sight, he worshiped Jesus.

When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next

To really achieve anything, you have to be able to tolerate and enjoy risk. It has to become a challenge to look forward to. In all fields, to make exceptional discoveries you need risk—you're just never going to have a breakthrough without it.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

I always thought having a ring doctor at a boxing match was like having a preacher in a whore house. If a fighter is worried about his health, he's obviously chosen the wrong profession.

My father was a policeman who fought in World War II. When he talked about 'journalists,' he meant Ernie Pyle. As far as he was concerned, journalists had hair on their chests and wrote about wars.

I wish I felt brave." "Do you know how a brave person feels?" "How?" "Scared.

Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

There's a fine line between being practical and being a candyass, which is a word that my father used to describe someone whom he considered to be the opposite of tough. ... Because I'm very afraid of becoming a candyass, I'll sometimes do things that I know to be impractical just so I don't have to worry about being a candyass.