Quotes About Courage

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.

The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too.

It is an everlasting duty, valid in our day as in that, the duty of being brave. Valor is still value. The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward, till he have got Fear under his feet.

Where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist there only to be extinguished; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction.

Tell a man that he is brave, and you help him become so.

Keep not standing fix'd and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home. In each land the sun does visit We are gay, whate'er betide: To give room for wandering is it That the world was made so wide.

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.

Again and again Someone in the crowd wakes up. He has no ground in the crowd And he emerges according to much broader laws. He carries strange customs with him and demands room for bold gestures. The future speaks ruthlessly through him. —Rainer Maria Rilke (Über Kunst, 1899)

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Cut my legs off but don't take away my ability to think, dream, and write

A lot of people, when they are expected to do great things they fold, but you have got to find a way to navigate it.

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

I have seen and heard a 21-gun salute as my father is in the Navy, but that doesn't mean I don't jump if a gun is fired in my face!

I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular.

To be a Navy SEAL, it's three and a half years training before you're ever put into harm's way the first time.

Like in combat when you're in chaos, a Navy SEAL in chaos, you cannot be afraid of dying for a cause.

I am somebody who never came close to a physical altercation, because I was too scared of even getting near one - I'd probably just start crying.