Quotes About Courage

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.

Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.

It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.

He didn't care that his voice and hands shook as he brought her closer. He was thoroughly unashamed of the depth of his feeling for this woman.

Lock and load, everyone," Lucan said, casting a grave look at the rest of them. "It's gonna be a long, bloody night.

the quest for truth by someone who isn't afraid to pursue it, no matter the cost.

You honor us well, warrior." - Lucan

With him, I'm dancing right up next to the flames of everything I'm afraid of and I'm learning that I can actually enjoy the burn. With him, I'm learning that I crave it.

Hell, maybe I'm just a pussy and I need to know I've got my"—he almost said family—"the Order behind me on this." Lucan smiled, nodding slowly. "You always will," he said, reaching out to clap Dante on the shoulder. "Gotta tell you, I'm looking forward to meeting the woman who can scare the shit out of one of the fiercest warriors I've ever known.

Don't let fear keep you from pushing your personal boundaries. If you do, you'll miss out on some of the most pleasurable things in life.

You two have a lot of balls coming here." Kynan gestured to Arik. "He does. I'm charmed. Nothing can hurt me. Or my balls.

He thought it was funny that she could hack a bloodthirsty demon to death, but something as natural as having a baby made her quake. Not that Kynan blamed her. He'd happily choose taking a bullet to the gut over squeezing a bowling ball out of his ass. Women were amazing.

I will never belong to anyone—I will die before I allow that to happen.

Moonbeams and sunshine, the clouds and the seas, all part of the many worlds I want you to see. Fear not the unknown, nor the depths of the night, for nothing can harm you when I hold you tight.

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. —Austin O'Malley

Love is like jumping off a cliff, even when you know you're acrophobic.

said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers." And

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Most of us are one of two things: blind or chicken-shit. We wouldn't know a crossroads in our lives if it had a set of stoplights and a Denny's.

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.

Don't say what you would or wouldn't do, honey. Cause one day you might have to.

Fear. Help you get some heightened awareness. - Braden Chaney