Quotes About Courage

You don't let your enemies take your balls, you don't let them set up shop in your head.

Winners don't fear reality, they don't hide from the truth, and they're not afraid to confront their own flaws and weaknesses.

When your faith is strong, you've got an extra tank of rocket fuel for those times when the road is long and there are no refill stations in sight.

Here's the deal: 90 percent of the time, whatever you do will turn out to be a mistake, but that's still better than doing nothing, which is always a mistake.

You tell 'em, love. That's what we do to the boys who kick us outta the nest.

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. 2 Chronicles 15:7

during tough times, "Leaders stretch to the challenge, while followers shrink from the challenge.

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

The thought does cross my mind that I could slip and end up cracking my head on the pavement just short of the pool, but if you're always going to worry about minor drawbacks, then you'll never accomplish anything.

Evil dies tonight!

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Richard Nixon had quoted the same speech the day before

He who has not known war has not known God.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

Everyone will tell you your goal is impossible, pointless, stupid, wasteful. So you hang tough. You back yourslef and only yourself.

Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced."24

We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

could not find a lawyer in Muncie brave enough to take on his defense of free speech.

There were still men walking the streets of 1922 Indiana who had fought against the slaveholders, and who believed that liberating humans held as property had been the highest calling of their lives. Among them was William H. Stern, a white man raised on a farm north of Indianapolis.

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to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Ike Osteen's life spans the flu epidemic of 1918, the worst depression in American history, and a world war that ripped apart the globe. Nothing compares to the black dusters of the 1930s, he says, a time when the simplest thing in life—taking a breath—was a threat. Up