Quotes About Courage

And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman." I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

A week after the celebration, on June 28, 187 members of Kompani Linge, with Poulsson and Rønneberg in the lead, paraded in uniform before King Haakon. Of their select unit, fifty-one had died during the war. The king paid tribute to the men and their clandestine work.

A week later, Tronstad's courier was seized at the wharf's edge. Fortunately he was able to swallow the cigarette paper before being hauled away.

Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen" was read in English and in Norwegian translation at the ceremony: "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: / Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. / At the going down of the sun and in the morning, / We will remember them.

Knut Haugland spent 101 days in 1947 as the radio operator on the Kon-Tiki, a simple raft that crossed the Pacific Ocean with only a six-man crew. Beyond offering great adventure, the journey exorcised his own demons.

The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won't you?

He had always figured it was going to be a one-way journey, he said, and now he wanted his leader to know that he did not intend to slow down the team if they had the chance to escape. He would find his own way. "Nonsense," Rønneberg said flatly. "You've kept up with us until now, and you can keep up with us to Sweden." For this decision the young leader did not offer a vote.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

What's the point of living forever if you can't take a few risks?

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.