Quotes About Courage

Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt humanitarian

A couple of times I've been called on to do things–jobs or whatever–where I've felt, Maybe I'm not quite ready. Maybe it's a little early for this to happen to me. But the rules are so ingrained. "Say yes, and you'll figure it out afterward" has helped me to be more adventurous. It has definitely helped me be less afraid. —Tina Fey comedian and writer

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. —Flannery O'Connor

To Thine Own Self Be True Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. —Johnny Depp actor

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. —Steven Pressfield writer

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. —Abraham Lincoln U.S. president

Do It! Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. —Theodore Roosevelt U.S. president

You shouldn't think that she might not return, but Sinead, if something did happen to her, you all would make it. Your family has a support system in each other like nothing I've ever seen before.

A firefighter's job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.

True love takes courage, because you have to offer yourself, everything you are, weaknesses and all. And that is the greatest fear of all because rejection of self from someone you love would be a pain beyond enduring.

preferring to live in the dusty ashes of what he'd once been than to risk the flames

Mona Mincheon

There are no atheists in foxholes. Whoever had said that was right.

an adage about the fire department: A firefighter's job is hours of boredom, seconds of terror.

she had also witnessed a courage which far exceeded endurance, a joy which transcended pain and the manner in which suffering could be the medicine which deepened people's humanity

I often think, why did I let her in? Didn't I know she was bad? And I did, of course I did, but I also knew that I couldn't keep that door shut all my life, just because it was dangerous, just because there was a chance of getting hurt.

I used it to save the lives of my men." That

She had been shot once, point-blank in the chest, from five, maybe six feet away.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene Success

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

Don't count the days, make the days count. -Muhammad Ali Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs