Quotes About Courage

Saber a qué le tememos, es sabes quiénes somos.

Ante el terror y la deshumanización, la pasión humana era en sí misma un acto de desafío.

Death is a lover to be feared and there was only one way to overcome that fear - by being her executioner.

en el Distrito Federal? Sólo los héroes o los idiotas.

Fear is the foundation of your identity.

Gained a wealth of knowledge, scars that I have earned. Challenge upon challenge, tomorrow is anew. Fear no longer feeds here, I live with no regrets

Nanak, the whole world is in distress. He, who believes in the Name, becomes victorious.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. —Winston Churchill

It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.

The dead only know one thing. It is better to be alive.... I'm so happy that I am alive, in one piece and short. I'm in a world of shit...yes. But I am alive. And I am not afraid

when you're far away from home and scared shitless you need all the friends you can get and you need them right away.

Genuine and lasting strength consists in bearing things.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

How numerous are the crowds that have heroically faced death for beliefs, ideas, and phrases that they scarcely understood!

Cabrón: Literally, a castrated goat. Mexicans understand it better as "asshole," or badass.

Happy," said Thomas. "When I grow up, I am going to be happy." Mrs. van Amersfoort was about to pull a book from the shelf, but turned in surprise. She looked at Thomas with a smile and said, "That is a damn good idea. And do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

Edwin tells us that he became an atheist in college; but as he grew to know the limits of science and then began seeing what he called "too many coincidences" in the universe, his atheism slipped to agnosticism. Then, he recalls, a professor showed him that you could find truth in poetry and once said to him that "an agnostic is an atheist with no courage." That clearly shook Edwin's easy agnosticism.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

When one hears about acts of extraordinary bravery in combat, it is usually a sign that the battle has not been going terribly well. For when wars unfold according to plan and one's own side is winning, acts of exceptional individual heroism are rarely called for. Bravery is required mostly by the desperate side.

We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.