Quotes About Courage

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us, as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

They were never defeated, they were only killed.

Despair doubles our strength.

Being human, we should bear all we can.

The better part of valour is discretion.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that.... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"

From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

When in doubt, do it.