Quotes About Courage

Don't spend too much of your life avoiding the sharp edges of shattered dreams.

You are going to be fine — you come from a long line of lunatics.

It is a sovereign remedy against Despair and Melancholy.

Night is filled with our loudest fears and a silent courage.

I felt as if I had been confronted by a blank wall, but panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Optimism... A kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

...for nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero. He can say he doesn't like pie, when he sees there is not enough to go round.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. The poet is the Pandora of the mind.

Have faith in poets, for they have not been ashamed to tell you that men suffer. They have not been afraid to look life in the face: and often the encounter is more comforting than you had expected.

A statesman is a man that can do what the politician would like to do but can't because he is afraid of not being elected.

Prayer lights our souls through dark times.

Prayer helps hold together a broken soul.

...if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean purpose, courage and valour, this night show it...

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns... and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Beautiful rainbows and life water come from a dark rain cloud — What gifts can you bring the world even in your times of darkness?

I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore. After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch.

The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.