Quotes About Courage

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.

The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it's not what's in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It's not even what's in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it's what's in your heart.

These individuals need to see that as long as they continue to choose to please others at their own expense, they will be trapped. They need to discover how they try to control other people's responses by being the "good boy" or "nice girl" for them. They need to find the courage to give up that control by being frank and honest with people and allowing them to respond as they will.

Wellington, examining the roster of officers assigned to him for the 1810 campaign in Portugal, said, "I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

No guts, no glory.

The with forbidden the death of warriors

Sometimes a champion is the one who is ready to act, not the strongest or the bravest.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.

What a ridiculous sentiment. 'Adventures' is just a different name for 'terrible ideas.

Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies.

My life sucks. So I shave my head.

How come it's so hard to come to someone's rescue? How come it's so hard to come to your own rescue?

The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow..

Although I'm marked by my inner scars, I'm also empowered by my experiences.

It ain't how hard you are when you're standing over top of someone that really matters. It's how hard you are when someone's standing over top of you that shows what you're made of.

Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.

Celeste Bradley

It will be all right, she told herself, and she stepped out of the boat into the water.

it seemed the sanest and most logical course: if the world was on fire, you might as well burn bright.

I have measured my life with coffee spoons and do I dare to eat a peach?' 'DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?

She's going to get through this. Because she has to.