Quotes About Courage

Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers' lives.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

In its true exchange, one cannot gain a great deal unless one is willing to dare losing all.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Kid, I can handle anything but the middle of the night.

Then the Warden said, "Do you have anything you'd like to say?" and Gary looked up at the ceiling and hesitated, then said, "Let's do it." That was it. The most pronounced amount of courage, Vern decided, he'd ever seen, no quaver, no throatiness, right down the line.

No psychic reward might be so powerful as winning a dare with yourself. If you were really scared, and went through it, and came out on the other side intact, then it was hard not to believe for a little while that you were on the side of the gods. It felt as if you could do no wrong. Time slowed. You were no longer doing it. For good or ill, it was doing it. You had entered the logic of that other scheme where death and life had as many relations as Yin and Yang.

He was drinking and contemplating his fear. It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed

It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take the action which frightened him most (and so could free him the most). He did not do it always, who could? but he had come to think that the secret to growth was to be brave a little more than one was cowardly, simple as that, indeed

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

If you face life with the sincere faith that through the aid of the Almighty you can overcome your troubles, then you will keep defeat at arm's length. And this applies in all the circumstances life can bring.

Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Be an all-out, not a hold out.

Basil King once said, "Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.

Tuhan memahami semua kesulitan, jadi bicarakanlah denganNya.

Courage can be many things, but the secret of courage is simply and honestly to admit your feelings of failure. And then with God's help go on and do your job in spite of them.

The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security. This will force out or expel all thoughts of doubt, all lack of confidence. To one man who for a long time had been haunted by insecurities and fears I suggested that he read through the Bible underlining in red pencil every statement it contains relative to courage and confidence. He also committed them to memory, in effect cramming his mind full of the healthiest, happiest, most powerful thoughts in the world.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain." Practice confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities will soon have no power over you.

It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.