Quotes About Courage

Believe in yourself; you may succeed when others do not believe in you, but never when you do not believe in yourself.

What can defeat a strong man who believes in himself and cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down? Poverty cannot dishearten him, misfortune deter him, or hardship turn him a hair's breadth from his course. Whatever comes, he keeps his eye on the goal and pushes ahead.

There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be conscious that we possess decided ability for some particular calling, and to be compelled by circumstances, year after year, to be chained to drudgery which the heart loathes, requires supreme courage.

Who would back you in a race While defeat is in your face?

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. --HELEN KELLER

We were made to dominate our environment. It was not intended that we should be buffeted about by accident or chance. Our greatest enemies live in our own brains, in our imaginations, in our wrong ideas of life. We were intended to be conquerors instead of slaves and there is no slavery like the slavery to a conviction or a superstition that makes us cowards.

STICK. Patience is the courage of the conqueror; it is the virtue, par excellence, of Man against Destiny, of the One against the World, and of the Soul against Matter.

Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.

The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man, the one who is never certain of himself; who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account. It

Quit fearing things that may never happen, just as you would quit any bad practise which has caused you suffering. Fill your mind with courage, hope, and confidence.

It is a law of nature, said Herodotus, "that faint-hearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries; for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

What would you do, if you were besieged in a place entirely destitute of provisions? As long as there was anything to eat in the enemy's camp, answered Napoleon, "I should not be at all concerned. A will finds a way.

to inspire his men, wont about among the plague-stricken soldiers, touching their wounds with his bare hands. He said that the man who had no fear would never be stricken with the plague. he believed that the mind is master of the body. If there was over a believer in the almost omnipotent power of the mind and of the will, it was Napoleon.

Pavlik denounced his father's crimes, and when Trofim shouted out, 'It's me, your father,' the boy told the judge: 'Yes, he used to be my father, but I no longer consider him my father. I am not acting as a son, but as a Pioneer.

Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.

People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

Will people really go?" "People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

Sometimes, what's right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.