Quotes About Courage

Sergeant Gavin Sutherland

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

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Generations of girls had to suffer excruciating pain because somebody unknown had decreed that big feet were unacceptable in upper-class society. It was high time that somebody tried to stop this senseless practice. I was proud that Xueyan and I were among the first to rebel.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing.

Only one who risks is free.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressure, and that is the basis of all human morality. And whatever maybe the sactifices he faces if he follows his conscience, the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men, each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

The person who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

For it's human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.

Busy thyself with the secrets of wisdom and knowledge, thus thou shalt overcome the fear of the morrow in thee.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.