Quotes About Courage

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

People can bear anything.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

"Brave admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school, the little while I went, I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me, but I always got up.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes, the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

I like the man who faces what he must, With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

As one skeleton said to the other - if I had any guts I'd get the heck out of here.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

Riding hard for glory.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Not many people ask me out.

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.