Quotes About Courage

I would like to be strapped to a giant rocket and fired into the heart of the sun.

Vind je het goed als ik jou gebruik om mijn leven aan diggelen te gooien?

It's still a great time for adventurers.

Jean] had the guts to kill herself, and I admire her for it, although, of course, she was quite crazy at the time, with a brain misfiring like a cross-wired laptop. Pressing the keystrokes love , the screen read die . Pressing the keystrokes survive , the screen read die . The damn thing, her mind-machine, was shot.

The three angels were called Truth, Courage, and Compassion. These seemed very old-fashioned words. Corny, even. Little Fearless had no time for fancy words like that. She'd have been more convinced that the angels represented something real if they had been named Doubt, Cruelty, and Revenge. Or Anger, Confusion, and Indifference. These seemed to be the powers that ran the world.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

Denied the status of belligerents, the Volunteers knew that they fought in the likelihood of execution if captured under arms, or even without them, depending on whose hands they fell into.

Colonel Woodcock obviously belonged to the 'stiff upper lip' school of army behaviour: after shouting at his wife to keep watching at the window, he got shot himself and staggered back into the bedroom, telling her, 'It's alright darling, they have only hit outlying portions of me.' Woodcock, in fact, had been hit four times - but he subsequently recovered.

Truly the hills of Ireland could be levelled to the ground and all her children driven out upon the seas of the world before England can conquer us while we have such faith and courage.

You know that saying about how fools rush in where wise men fear to tread? Ashok rushes in where fools won't even go.

Okay then. Let's go save the galaxy.

You make decisions, not suggestions; you know the answer while everyone else is still asking questions.

Get comfortable being uncomfortable, or find another place to fail.

Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams . . . they're waiting for you to just let go.

If you want to go somewhere new, you have to throw out the tired, old map and stop traveling the same road to the same dead end.

If you can tolerate fear and doubt and loneliness… Winning would like a word with you.

Cleaner's attitude can be summed up in three words: I own this. He walks in with confidence and leaves with results. A Cleaner has the guts and the vision to steer everything to his advantage.

Confidence is about taking chances, and never doubting the outcome.

Most people have too many options, and they rarely choose the tougher one.

Bottom line if you want success of any kind: you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.

A Cleaner knows when to walk away, and which direction to walk. Never running, always walking; he leaves smoothly and on his own terms.