Quotes About Courage

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

History favors the intrepid.

I knew if I sat there another minute, I'd never be able to get beyond everything that was going to happen from that day on. My life would disappear inside his. So I got up.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

But the boy knew that monsters didn't die as easily as hope.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

She'd been in survival mode for so long that she hadn't been able to dream about her future. She was finally free to do so.

It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

Ballantyne made the Big Jump, he and the men with him. They did the biggest thin men have ever done. They reached out and touched the stars. And you tried to hide it, to cover it up, to rob them even of the glory they had coming.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Better to know defeat from courage

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

Born to lose. Live to win.

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I'm wrong, but I don't have the courage to say so.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.