Quotes About Courage

You may feel like a coward when your anxiety pushes you to choose silence over speech, or restraint over action. Yet in many circumstances, silence and restraint are the wiser, more courageous choices.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty."

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

There's little point in killing an idea by saying it might fail. Any idea might fail. If you're doing anything worthwhile at all, you'll suffer a dozen failures. Start failing so you can start succeeding

but silence is frightening to the frightened

survival is triumph enough.

The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

Survival is truimph enough.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.

There isn't a person alive who has not been afraid at one time or another. It is only the brave man who can feel fear and still go forward.

Doors only lock, Because enemy within scares more than outside

Paratroopers are human Alsatians.

Fear is a good emotion to cultivate; it keeps you alert. Without it few survive.

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

I had already taken a step toward their house, but then Father said, 'No, not there. They're hiding Jews.'" Christ!" exclaimed Anton, slapping his forehead.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.

How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I won't sell influence and I'm perfectly willing to be cussed if I'm right.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel?