Quotes About Courage

Some things are worth risking lives for," he said. "If you had seen what the Ashaki do – experienced it – you'd want to rid the world of them, too." - Lorkin

Heroes tend to gain improbable strength when their tale is told over and over again.

But consider what he would have done to you, Sonea. One day you may have to kill for your freedom." Faren lifted an eyebrow. "Have you thought about that?

There are always people out there who want me gone," Cery said. "I'll go when I'm ready.

Do I dare. Disturb the universe?

Solo aquellos que se arriesgan a ir demasiado lejos sabrán lo lejos que pueden llegar.

People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear

True confidence is not about hoping that you can take this risk (that's called courage) and overcome this challenge (that's perseverance); it's about realistically expecting that you can do it, based on previously demonstrated performance. A confident guy expects the woman to engage

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall

Fear is stronger than love

Machines have no fear of the unfamiliar.

Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic, but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters, regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.

To truly banish evil, you must march on the clouds and never look down. You must climb higher until you attain a place so filled with light there is no crevice left in which darkness may hide.

I believe . . . that if our country ever comes into trial again, young men will spring up equal to the occasion, and if one fails, there will be another to take his place.

I do not believe I ever would have the courage to fight a duel. If any man should wrong me to the extent of my being willing to kill him, I would not be willing to give him the choice of weapons with which it should be done, and of the time, place and distance separating us, when I executed him.

I would not have the anniversaries of our victories celebrated, nor those of our defeats made fast days and spent in humiliation and prayer; but I would like to see truthful history written. Such history will do full credit to the courage, endurance and soldierly ability of the American citizen, no matter what section of the country he hailed from, or in what ranks he fought. The justice of the cause which in the end prevailed, will, I doubt not, come

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 8, 1863, 10.2 A.M. MAJ.-GENERAL U. S. GRANT: Understanding that your lodgment at Knoxville and at Chattanooga is now secure, I wish to tender you, and all under your command, my more than thanks, my profoundest gratitude for the skill, courage, and perseverance with which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object. God bless you all, A. LINCOLN, President U. S. The safety of Burnside's army and the loyal people

No doubt a majority of the duels fought have been for want of moral courage on the part of those engaged to decline.

but no man is so brave that he may not meet such defeats and disasters as to discourage him and dampen his ardor for any cause, no matter how just he deems it.

Once initiated there were but few public men who would have the courage to oppose it. Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate "war, pestilence, and famine," than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun.

When I first went on deck I entered the captain's room adjoining the pilot-house, and threw myself on a sofa. I did not keep that position a moment, but rose to go out on the deck to observe what was going on. I had scarcely left when a musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.