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Quotes About Courage

And you will be scared again. All your life. You must conquer this. Face them and pretend that aren't there
~ Mitch Albom
Faith is so important. It is a rope for us all to grab, up and down the mountain.
~ Mitch Albom
Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses.
~ Mitch Albom
He learned the nervous cheer of a soldier's first survived combat, when the men slap each other and smile as if it's over— We can go home now! —and he learned the sinking depression of a soldiers second combat, when he realizes the fighting does not stop at one battle, there is more and more after that.
~ Mitch Albom
Fear is how you lose your life.. a little bit at a time... What we give to fear, we take away from.. faith.
~ Mitch Albom
How did you do it, Benji? How did you survive all that way alone? I was never alone, the man said
~ Mitch Albom
Hope doesn't wait for vision to appear. Hope is vision in action today.
~ Mitri Raheb
Hope is living the reality and yet investing in a different one.
~ Mitri Raheb
It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But [is] not all right to run away.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Not all new knowledge is beautiful, or even to be desired. Yet there comes a time when, no matter how hard it is to accept what we see, no matter how much we do not want to believe it, our studies will cease and we will learn no more. Though the world may point and criticize, if the truth has been found, sometimes you must shout it from the rooftops in the face of all opposition. The pursuit of knowledge requires an iron will that always looks forward and never falters.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Don't give up hope.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Yorda turned away from the shadow-creature just as its claws were about to close on her shoulders. Her eyes met Ico's, then fell to his outstretched hand. Finally, fear spurred her to action. She ran and jumped.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Ico thrust out his left hand, shouting to the girl. She had already sunk to her knees. For the space of a breath, barely long enough to blink, she hesitated. Her eyes focused on Ico, questioning, trying to peer into the bottom of his soul. Where her gaze fell on him, he felt cool, as though clear water washed over him. He gasped with the sensation. She thrust out her arm and grabbed his hand.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Mr Jack Caffery', he says slowly. 'This is the truth, but don't be afraid of it. Your life will be different from this day on, but you will survive. You will continue.' 'How do you know?' 'I know because you and I? We are the same person.
~ Mo Hayder
I cannot operate from fear anymore.
~ Mohja Kahf
courage is demanded not to attack when afraid
~ Mohsin Hamid
and you are ready, ready to die well, ready to die like a man, like a woman, like a human, for despite all else you have loved, you have loved your father and your mother and your brother and your sister and your son and, yes, your ex-wife and you have loved the pretty girl, you have been beyond yourself, and so you have courage, and you have ...
~ Mohsin Hamid
E così, qualunque fosse la ragione, quella volta la moderazione ebbe la meglio, e l'audacia, perché ci vuole coraggio a non attaccare quando si ha paura
~ Mohsin Hamid
Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about. But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was determined to survive, and so she did.
~ Mohsin Hamid
He thought about Lina saying she was like their mom. She was scared that it would happen to her. There was something tentative about his sister; he wasn't like that. His mother must have somehow given him a confidence that she didn't have herself. Still, Lina was an artist. That took courage. He'd made a bargain with life. He'd spend his time gaining the ease they'd once needed. His kids could be artists. He hoped they would be.
~ Mona Simpson
The mother of cruelty is cowardice.
~ Montaigne
Qui craint de souffrir souffre déjà de ce qu'il craint.
~ Montaigne Michel De
If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten.
~ Monty Python
I would say the biggest one is probably not being afraid to fail. I think that's the greatest gift you could give to anybody.
~ Morgan Spurlock