Quotes About Courage

They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.

Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

OVERALL, THE MORE STRESSFUL MY LIFE WAS BECOMING, THE MORE DETERMINED I was to get it together, stop acting like a passenger, and climb back behind the wheel where I belonged

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.

Negroes Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day They change their minds! Wind In the cotton fields, Gentle breeze: Beware the hour It uproots trees!

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

Life dosent frighten me at all.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?" Alec thought for a moment. "Spiders," he said. Clary turned to Luke. "Have you got a spider anywhere?" Luke looked exasperated. "Why would I have a spider? Do I look like someone who would collect them?" No offense," Jace said, "but you kind of do.

Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.