Quotes About Courage

Roosevelt had never allowed himself to fear death, famously writing, "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die." From a very young age, he had been prepared to die in order to live the life he wanted. When a doctor at Harvard told him that his heart was weak and would not hold out for more than a few years unless he lived quietly, he had replied that he preferred an early death to a sedentary life.

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.

She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

Real encouragers are willing to be fools in the eyes of cynics because they have a great vision

The character doesn't even come out until people are tested and be put in extreme situations and most people spend their lives trying to avoid those kinds of situations.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Nostalgia for what? Nostalgia is when you want things to stay as they were. I know so many people who stay in the same place. And I think, my God, look at them! They're dead before they die. Living is risking.

True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you.

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

The noblest of men deserves not the weakest of women.

I am my own dragon. I decide for myself.

Happy are those who dream dreams And are willing to pay the price to see them come true

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Colui a cui il destino impone di fare la sua strada deve percorrerla armato soltanto di speranza e con gli occhi bene aperti, consapevole della sua solitudine e del pericolo che gli abissi della solitudine rappresentano.

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life." —Maya Angelou

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The Bulletproof Mind

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.