Quotes About Courage

where the Apostle John was first plunged, unhurt, into boiling oil, and thence remitted to his island-exile!

white sheet draped over his head. And Peavey knew enough about men in white sheets to understand they were nothing but cowards and posers.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

To change one's life: Begin now. Be bold. No exceptions.

Great emergencies and crisis show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

so I stand here without further deprecatory words.

Man flieht nicht, weil man Angst hat, sondern man hat Angst, weil man flieht.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't any of us have to be afraid anymore.

a former Norwegian army officer and

if anybody other than myself had been at the head of the Reich! Anyone you care to mention would have lost his nerve. I was obliged to lie, and what saved us was my unshakable obstinacy and my amazing aplomb."29

Despite all the terror and intimidation, the majority of them rejected Hitler.

And the German people? On August 19, some 95 per cent of those who had registered went to the polls, and 90 per cent, more than thirty-eight million of them, voted approval of Hitler's usurpation of complete power. Only four and a quarter million Germans had the courage—or the desire—to vote "No.

I'm glad you've seen the part played by our women in our movement, Gandhi beamed. The world has never seen such a magnificent spectacle. They were as brave as our men.

Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.

What makes you heal? What makes you strong?

I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.

Yeah, but where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?' I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.

They are too stupid to fear. Vertigo is too complex for them.

terrorism could not win once the real terror went.

Maria Spiridonova

Whenever any society dies there must be heroes whose fightback is to not change.