Quotes About Courage

Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

There is no magic wand to accomplish change. No one can promise change—he or she can only make it possible. What makes change happen, history and current U.S. politics show, is principled and courageous commitment and integrity.

Odysseus doesn't overcome the lure of the siren's song through virtue and discipline; he orders his sailors to bind him to the mast.

You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.

Ninety seconds earlier, Titan Six had jumped from an unmarked

jumps — High Altitude, Low Opening — are always dangerous,

If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.

My dear Mother, I didn't knock myself down. Why Should I pick myself up?

If you're afraid of your shadow falling across Another life, shine less brightly upon yourself.

why would you think such a dangerous endeavor would be fun?

He had learned that sometimes there was no safe path, no decision from which one could emerge unscathed. In those cases, he had been taught to take the path of honor, even if it led to pain or death

Christopher Golden

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Cuando expones la bulliciosa naturaleza del miedo a la clara luz de la serenidad, todos los miedos desaparecen en el acto.

Please understand that there is no one depressed in this house. We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid...

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I have begun to fact-check my e-mail jokes, and my e-mails generally, even though I do not use capital letters or proper punctuation. "we write everything lowercase in order to save time," said Herbert Bayer—herbert bayer—of the Bauhaus school. When I discovered this quote I felt so reassured. I'd always worried that I'd naturally defaulted to lowercase letters because I lacked courage or conviction or a healthy sense of self-worth.

Olen tullut tutuksi suuremman pedon kanssa kuin maailma, huoneessani se odottaa kaikki kaksitoista silmää auki. Kun lähestyn sitä se nousee levitoimaan kun käännän sille selkäni sen käpälät ovat kaulallani.

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Heinrich Gerlach

We had learned on the North Face of the Eiger that men are good and the earth on which we were born is good.

Decades of destruction, suppression, genocide, sterilization, and political indoctrination could not break the Tibetans' will for freedom, or their deep-rooted religious beliefs. On