Quotes About Courage

It is like looking down from the clifs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.

The duties of the priest towards the Eucharist and towards the secrecy of the confessional seemed so grave to me that I wondered how anybody had ever found in himself the courage to undertake them; and I was not surprised when he told me that the fathers of the Church had written books as thick as the Post Office Directory and as closely printed as the law notices in the newspaper, elucidating all these intricate questions.

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.

Mi hai fatto confessare le paure che sento. Ma ti dirò anche che cos'è che non mi fa paura. Non mi fa paura esser solo o venir sprezzato per un altro o lasciare tutto ciò che tocchi lasciare. E non mi fa paura commettere un errore, anche un grande errore, un errore che duri quanto la vita e magari tutta l'eternità.

Bazen de korkusunun nedenleriyle flört ederdi. En karanl?k ve dar sokaklar? seçer ve cüretkarca yürürken ad?mlar?n?n çevresindeki sessizlik onu rahats?z eder, çevresindeki karanl?k siluetler onu rahats?z eder, alçak, kaçamak bir gülüÅŸ onu yaprak gibi titretirdi.

BaÅŸar?lar?n?n soÄŸuk çemberinin ortas?nda oturup ona parlak bir yaÅŸam saÄŸlayacak cesur bir talip bekledi. Ama tan??t??? erkekler s?radand?lar ve onlara cesaret vermeyip romantik arzular?n? gizlice lokum yiyerek bast?rmaya çal??t?.

Dare it. Let there be life.

He is a bold man who, in his writing, dares to alter---even further to distort---what he has seen and heard.

She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her.

As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living.

Tütüncüden d??ar? f?rlay?p ad?yla sesleniyorum. Dönüyor ve benden dersler, saatler, dersler, saatler boyu dinlediÄŸi karmakar???k sözcükleri duymak için duruyor: solgun yanaklar? yal?ml? bir opal ?????yla yavaÅŸça pembeleÅŸiyor. Yo, yo, korkma!

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

You could see into your own soul with total honesty of vision and find the wherewithal to get it down, that steady hand.

Norman Cousins said, "Death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is.

War had tested the limits of John Kennedy's physical and mental endurance, and he passed that test with great courage and coolness in the face of danger. Later, when he was president, Kennedy displayed that coconut on his desk as a treasured souvenir of his escape from death.

In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed. Or maybe not.

No matter what the other side does to you, you grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives them crazy.

Baptized Christians ran the ovens in the camps.

It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it was the poem that banished fear from the heart and transformed us from actors into participants.

That's good. Because if you love somebody, or if you love the church, like I do, then you don't ever have to be afraid. People are only superstitious when they're afraid. That's an important lesson for little people to learn.

and sometimes throwing your own

But as John Steinbeck had said long ago, we had come to fear a man with a hole in his shoe.

never let the naysayers and those who are masters at inculcating self-doubt hold sway in your life.

and began making coffee without asking permission.