Quotes About Courage

There are times when you will fear your own shadow during night; never let your trust ruin you into the dark- shibin varghese

Though I am young, I scorn to flitOn the wings of borrowed wit.

What became clear to me though, is that my white colleague had not experienced racialized trauma. My colleague was threatened because of his exercise of courageous speech. But his whiteness remained unmarked. The objective here is not to judge who suffered more, me or my white colleague. Rather it is important to recognize the specifically white racist hatred that I encountered. How my Black body was assaulted. My white colleague was threatened, but his whiteness was not under attack.

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy.  Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears...

Too many priests have held their tongues, and I wish it had only been from pity. But we're cowards.

Il faut beaucoup de prodigues pour faire un peuple généreux, beaucoup d'indisciplinés pour faire un peuple libre, et beaucoup de jeunes fous pour faire un peuple héroïque

Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Audacity, more audacity and always audacity.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert." Carrie's

I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for it. If you feel an inclination for something, just go for it. Life is too short to muck about doubting yourself. It's better to try and just shore yourself up with some sort of confidence. And get on with it!

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

To create one's own world takes courage.

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.