Quotes About Courage

genuine strength arises only in a condition of vulnerability. The flagrant display and self-serving use of power are an admission of deep incapacity.

The opposite of sloth is not 'activity' or industriousness in a business sense. It is fortitude - including patience and long-suffering.

Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

What was "walking on water," if it wasn't Bible talk for surfing?

You're chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

The Chinese remind us that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, yet they keep curiously silent about the step itself, which too often must be taken, as now, from inaccessible ground, if not indeed straight down into an unmeasured abyss.

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre (attributed to a French observer during the Charge of the Light

He taught me that if you've got guts, you can do any damned thing, guts and patience. Impatience is a costly commodity, Pete.

He's capital.

It would be hard to find anywhere in history a record of any other country going to such efforts, for so long, in a cause from which it could gain so little and lose so much.

even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.

Life expands or contracts in proportion to one's courage.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, "come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking…!

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

We have to dare, to dare again, always to dare...!