Quotes About Courage

Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes.

Speaking was temporarily beyond him, what with the testicular trauma and ass-stabbing.

There are things you think you won't be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you're already doing them.

In the face of every reason for breaking don't break because if nothing, absolutely nothing else I'm here with my hand on you. You're not alone.

Like blind boys they found each other, and confirmed each other, and through the FM of the flesh they sent to one another impulses of courage and affection.

Thomas Paine was kind of the oh, I don't know. My apologies to Thomas Paine, but kind of the me of the genera I mean, I can't think of anybody else. A guy just saying, "Hey, really, stand up. Come on. We can do it." He was kind of the he was the media guy, really. He just did pamphlets, the rest of us just do TV.

Let me tell you this: They shut me down on radio, that's fine, I'll do TV. They shut me down on TV, that's fine, I'll do Internet. They shut me down on the Internet, that's fine, I'll do stage shows. They shut me down on stage shows, that's fine, I'll go door to door. You will have to shoot me in the head. We are not stopping.

You can try to put the lid on this group of people, but you will never silence us. You will never you can shoot me in the head, you can shoot the next guy in the head, but there will be 10 others that line up. And it may not happen today, it may not happen next week, but freedom will be restored in this land. Period. And no matter what you want to call it, it is a totalitarian state that you're headed towards.

no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.

Never forget who you are; a daughter of a Heavenly Father. You have royal heritage, and anyone who makes you feel like less that is not a man,husband,father, or friend,simply someone who is afraid of you because he knows who you are, but doesn't know who he is.

Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.

He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance — that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter.

At the Battle of the Somme in France, more than sixty thousand British soldiers died on the battle's first day alone.476

You've been getting it. Big fat doses of the truth. it's ugly, isn't it? Sometimes. And you still want it? Always... I'm not afraid. Besides, God is my shield. You don't have to be.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Any why are people afraid to "let go"? Because to "let go" implies a surrender of one's self to this whole process of "falling" and the most primary and early and deep rooted fear that every one is born with, so psychologists tell us, is the fear of falling. If a man can overcome his fear of falling he can overcome the world.

Sometimes people hold on to hope as if was their own skin. Without it, they feel would just fall into pieces.

Pero si es el resultado final de todo esto, y sé que hay una elevada probabilidad de que así sea, decidí hace tiempo que puedo aguantar lo que sea. Lo único que no puedo aguantar es saber que no hice nada.»

Finally, Snowden gave me an answer that felt vibrant and real. "The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs," he said. "If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.

What keeps a person passive and compliant," he explained, "is fear of repercussions, but once you let go of your attachment to things that don't ultimately matter—money, career, physical safety—you can overcome that fear.

in the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure. Philosophy

Courage is contagious.