Quotes About Courage

Morrie closed his eyes. I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and we all know it's going to happen. I maybe have four or five months.

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 humour, with composure.

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced.

Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith.

Maybe that's worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.

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.

A veces no eres capaz de creerte lo que ves, tienes que creer lo que sientes. Y si quieres que los demás lleguen a confiar en ti, tu debes sentir que puedes confiar en ellos, aunque estés a oscuras. Aunque estés cayendo- Morrie Schwartz

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

War was his call to manhood. Maybe someone would miss him, too.

I decided Im going to live-or at least try to live- the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

Do not stop your lives, he told them. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one. In this way, even as he was dying, he showed respect for his children's worlds.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid...But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.

Ted, this disease is knocking at my spirit. But it will not get my spirit. It'll get my body. It will not get my spirit.

There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live...' So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself that I will.

is how you stay alive.

Why suffer in front of so many people?

witnessing survival can make us believe in our own.

You see, he says to the girl, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you are falling.

Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith." The

Broken open is still open.

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to. Sometimes because they want to. Always, they fell they are supposed to.

With the chance to do what none in life ever get to do, he did not waver. He changed the history of his footsteps.

One small step for frog, one giant leap for the two of us.