Quotes About Courage

Come, take what you will, be nourished and know that you can bear what might be on your horizon, the good and the ill." Now

I think there is something to be said for a well-publicized ass-kicking.

Good women are the scariest varmints of all.

When fears remain untouched, innate capacities remain undiscovered

King, Gandhi, and Kepler become great because they make choices full of moral courage.

James A. Connor

To have courage. To have honor. Is very beautiful.

It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, and his gun and his wagon, and his waiting horses. She had no conception of what was being asked of her, but she knew that there could be no viable alternative. She dashed inside the orphanage and grabbed the few things that belonged to her.

Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish... On these harsh terms the islands waited.

If you try it," Whip said, "you'll be thrown out on your inalienable ass.

in 1954 it looked as if a deep schism had been driven down the middle of our community, pitting Japanese against haole, but the Sakagawa boys had the courage to back away from that tempting, perilous course. They reconciled haole and Japanese, and it is to their credit that they did so.

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James A. Michener

I've been afraid even to go out in my snowfall, let alone my blizzard.

honor included not only physical and moral courage but also a daring commitment to central beliefs

Women like her looked at their world, rolled up their sleeves, and tried to make it better. Now

Because I am for them, Commander, because their ancestors stood up to that Nazi, Bligh, just like I would be for one little Jew, terrified and hungry, crossing the Pyrenees to get away to freedom from the Gestapo. One little Jew. You wouldn't have him in your house. He stinks, he has lice. But, you know what, Commander? I am for him, every time." And he would punch me in the shoulder and lug his M-1 up onto the ridge, night after night.

Never ask such a question!" Rhodes exploded. "Anything can be done if men of good principle determine that it shall be done. Have you the courage to strike for immortal goals?" In

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it— Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. —Goethe

THE MAN OF TRUTH never departs from the divine principles which he has espoused. He may be threatened with sickness, poverty, pain, loss of friends and position, yea, even with immediate death, yet he does not desert the principles which he knows to be eternally true. To him, there is one thing more grievous, more to be feared and shunned than all the above evils put together, and that is—the desertion of principle.

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.

Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything, and never can.

No man can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue. Worry is not merely useless, it is folly, for it defeats that power and intelligence which is otherwise equal to the task.

Those who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered