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Quotes About Courage

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.
~ Terri Guillemets
Fibromyalgia, you slow me down but you ain't stoppin' me!
~ Author Unknown
Sometimes "I'm fine" just means "I have the strength to carry on."
~ Author Unknown
When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.
~ Edward F. Croker
All men are created equal, then a few become firemen.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighters save hearts and homes.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighters — your worst nightmare is just another day at the office for them.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighters are hot stuff!
~ Author Unknown
Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.
~ Author Unknown
What you call a hero, I call just doing my job.
~ Author Unknown
Firefighting — one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.
~ Author Unknown
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~ Susan Diane Murphree
So as you look at the firefighter with his rake, hose or axe, His beet red face or ice covered mustache, You should know why he goes through that smoky front door, And is forced to crawl like a baby down on the floor. He does it to save both lives and property, All that is precious to you and to me. So take a good look at this modern warrior who serves his call proud and true, And know that he would die just to save me and you.
~ Robert J. Athans, unverified
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
~ Larry Brown, On Fire, 1993
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine
...and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go.
~ T. S. Eliot, 1931
It is only the first step that is difficult.
~ French proverb
The adventure in popular government has gone on in this country for 150 years. And attended by the new risks of this revolutionary era, it is still the greatest adventure in the world today. And still worth one's faith, and one's courage, and one's perspicacity.
~ Dorothy Thompson, speech, 1937
Healing from grief is allowing the courage and purpose within you and the love someone else left you, to merge and create a new sense of being.
~ Terri Guillemets
Our hearts mourn when a loved-one departs, but with courage we learn to accept their absence in our lives. In gratitude, we appreciate the time that was given. And with love, the memories are not forsaken. We continue to create new ones so we can smile again.
~ Dodinsky
We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
~ Proverb
Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.
~ S.A. Sachs
Take heart, little sister, twilight is but the short bridge, and the moon stands at the end.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1861
Hope is a choice of courage.
~ Terri Guillemets