Quotes About Courage

Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Yukon Men is a popular Discovery Channel reality series about the citizens of the small town of Tanana in central Alaska. It portrays wolves as highly dangerous predators that besiege the town and threaten the safety of all of the residents. One of the show's characters, Charlie, says, "Wolves

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms...But we would also be duller, stupider, and, finally, sadder. If you want to avoid danger, don't get born. Once you are born, make something of it!

The other coach encouraged me to go for it. I took two of my kids and had one belay me. Halfway through, the rest of the team drove up and were cheering me on. It wasn't the time to do Shadow Boxing, but I was climbing well, the conditions changed in a positive direction, and I had all that support. I made it.

And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?

I will rise when he calls my name, no more sorrow, no more pain, I will rise on eagles wings before my God; fall on my knees, and rise, I will rise.

The Iwo Jima stamp shows us the many-sided truth of war: its teamwork and courage, its moments of glory, but behind that, its amoral destructiveness and its long, painful after-effects—something General William Tecumseh Sherman understood so well.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Walter and Bell glanced at each other, neither one relishing the idea of being the brave hero who found the escaped tiger in the bedroom.

Okay," Nina said. "We're all thinking it, but I'm going to say it. That was really, really stupid. If I hadn't brought my gun, we'd all be dead.

Repeat the experiment?" Nina echoed. "We almost got ourselves killed today. If you want to repeat that, you can count me out.

Einmal im Leben zur rechten Zeit sollte man an Unmögliches geglaubt haben.

Manfred sapeva assai bene che esiste una sorta di bravura che lascia del tutto fredda la persona in gamba.

Sie sagt, nach ihrer Beobachtung gehöre zum Leben der Frauen mehr Mut als zu dem der Männer. Wenn sie von einer Frau höre, die diesen Mut aufbringe, verlange es sie danach, mit ihr bekannt zu sein. Es sei nämlich dahin gekommen, daß die Frauen, auch über Entfernungen hinweg, einander stützen müßten, da die Männer nicht mehr dazu imstande seien.

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

There is a faith that is faith; there is a faith that can do all things; there is a faith that moves mountains, whatever those mountains may be; there is a faith that rises above every obstacle in the world and reaches the greatest heights that the mind of man may have in view; and it is this faith that is the hidden secret.

Faith is that something in man that transcends every form of limitation and opens the mind to the limitless powers of the soul

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Les hommes savent qu'ils pourront vivre demain ce qu'aucun d'eux n'avait osé envisager.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.