Quotes About Courage

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

In Cambodia, it's unfortunately common for husbands both to drink and to beat their wives. Other families are abandoned, left to fend for themselves. Instead, my husband runs through the city for the better part of the night to make sure that his wife and son are safe.

Courageous men are not fearless men, but those who climb despite fear. Everyone has a bridge to climb. At the end of the day, fear and I shake hands and part knowing we'll meet again when we climb our bridge together.

But I hope reading will give him something to look forward to, a reason to fight. I want to believe reading will fill him with courage.

Believing is not enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important" p. 33

Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don't share: Courage comes from doing common things.

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out," she says, "heroes arise in the most unexpected places.

Camron Wright

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Neta crawled out of the wreckage, hoping against hope that Amelia wasn't hurt. She wasn't. She was standing next to the plane, grinning and powdering her nose. "We have to look nice [if] reporters arrive," she said.

I live in fear that the deep waters through which I've passed will overwhelm me. —Mary Lincoln

Happy are these who lose imagination: They have enough to carry with ammunition. Their spirit drags no pack, Their old wounds save with cold cannot more ache. Having seen all things red, Their eyes are rid Of the hurt of the colour of blood for ever. And terror's first constriction over, Their senses in some scorching cautery of battle Now long since ironed, Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned.

I love peace, but it is because I love justice and not because I am afraid of war

War had turned out to be far more

Of course I deprecate war," he wrote, "but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

Launching and landing the boats, often chest-deep in water amid the heavy underbrush that lined the riverbank, the men were constantly vulnerable to the predatory fish, waterborne snakes, and other creatures they were disturbing. Even

Each time he faced personal tragedy or weakness, he found his strength not in the sympathy of others, but in the harsh ordeal of unfamiliar new challenges and lonely adventure.

I repeat my motto: poco spero, nulla chiedo." Little I hope, nothing I ask.

Roosevelt, still wearing his heavy, hobnailed boots, watched as the snake's short fangs plunged into the tough leather and spilled its venom down the side of his boot. He had been spared an agonizing, certain death by a quarter-inch of leather.

Candice Millard

The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative and intelligence than an express package," Roosevelt sneered.

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

Always more audacity.