Quotes About Courage

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live. The man who has never submitted to anything will soon submit to the burial mat.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

Puisque j'ai survécu à cette année-là, disait-il toujours, je survivrai à n'importe quoi.

If you want to experience the ultimate thrill, you have to be willing to pay the ultimate price."   —Big wave rider, Mark Foo

Whenever anxiety knocks on the door of your heart, answer it with prayer.

most of us learn to trust, not because we're noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don't have any other choice.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. —William Blake

wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door & exposing the passenger as well.

Inspiration can't be performed. It's an audience response to authenticity, courage, selfless work, and genuine wisdom.

The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.

The first law of exuberant imperfection is essentially this: The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.

You are doing this because you are fantastic and brave and curious. And, yes, you are probably a little crazy. And this is a good thing.

read Carlo Levi?

When you give voice to your fear, when you expose it, as vulnerable as that makes you, you give others the same permission. You give them courage to believe there's more to life than cowering. You give hope. And my guess is, when you tackle your inner fears, you will eventually tackle what's hold you back from who God intended you to be. Your fears lead you to who you really are.

Please, God, she prayed. Help me to hear him and let him just say what he needs to say. Help me not be afraid.

Ruthie once said that life isn't pretty, so you gotta hug the ugly out of it. I hung on to that as the days passed. I

When you give voice to your fear, when you expose it, as vulnerable as that makes you, you give others the same permission. You give them courage to believe there's more to life than cowering. You give hope. And my guess is, when you tackle your inner fears, you will eventually tackle what's holding you back from who God intended you to be. Your fears lead you to who you really are.

The more dangerous life is, the better. Scary equals important, right?

It's okay to fail, it's not okay to quit.

Moral courage is the courage to act and to speak the truth.

The sentencing of Manning marked the day when the state formally declared that all who name and expose its crimes will become political prisoners or will be forced, like Snowden, to flee into exile.

Paine's power, like Orwell's and Baldwin's, lay in his refusal to be anyone's propagandist. He told people, even people who supported him, what they often did not want to hear.

Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages. Mutiny is the only salvation for the Pequod's crew. And mutiny is our only salvation.