Quotes About Courage

Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

They never fail who die In a great cause: the block may soak their gore: Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls-- But still their Spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to Freedom.

It takes courage for a fruit to fall far from her tree.

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, "My heart resumed its place." Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been "as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

C. Hope Flinchbaugh

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.

A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.

Damn my eyes. Damn my soul. Glorious!

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

I was young and angry enough not to feel that, though this wasn't courage: young and angry is not the same as brave.

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

Where your fear is, there is your task.

At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things—but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.

The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason.

If we do not have the depths, how do we have the heights? Yet you fear the depths, and do not want to confess that you are afraid of them. It is good, though, that you fear yourselves; say it out loud that you are afraid of yourselves. It is wisdom to fear oneself.