Quotes About Courage

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

This world can be a trying place, Inspector. Sometimes you have to shed who you were to live who you are.

Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful.

Don't be sorry. You're alive.

Do not cry for losing blood. Not for something you love.

The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.

Despair has its own voice. It is a prayer unlike any other.

You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

C. S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia books you so loved, once said it is easy to trust a rope as long as you're using it to wrap a box. But when you're clinging to it over a deadly precipice, it's something else entirely.

Mitch, that's what faith is. If they spit in your face, you say it must be raining. But you still come back tomorrow.

Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.

ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die. But it was also becoming clear to me- through his courage, his humor, his patience, and his openIf some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.

What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.

She was broken open. But broken open is still open.

I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth. I gave up, I whispered. Don't give up, she whispered back.

Believe, hard work, love-you have those things, you can do anything.

Do not stop your lives. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.

It takes a special strength to take care of a child, Chika, and a whole different strength to admit you cannot.

Ted, he said, when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live? I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.