Quotes About Courage

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Those lose least who have least to lose.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.

Calculation never made a hero.

To play it safe is not to play.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

In danger there is great power.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

No guts, no glory.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

All serious daring starts from within.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.