Quotes About Courage

Blessed are you who, among the numberless swept away in terror, permitted a few to suffer carefully.

steer your way through the pain that is far more real than you

Ah baby, let's get married We've been alone too long Let's be alone together Let's see if we're that strong

The definition of truth is an endless, complex pursuit, and good men and women have suffered the pain of both controversy and error. Intellectual, emotional, and political roadblocks may slow up people like Cyril for a time. But their lives taken as a whole are monuments to honesty and courage.

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.

Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.

He who fears God fears no man.

Physical courage will make a man brave one way; and moral courage, which despises men's opinions whosoever they be, will make a man brave another way. Both these types of courage made Paul a Christian Daniel in a Roman ''den of lions.'' Men

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails. —E. M. BOUNDS

The man whose little sermon is ''repent'' sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—''off with his head!' You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven. —JOSEPH PARKER

We spend so much time urging children to trust us to help them with their problems. Yet we don't even have the courage to let them read books in which those problems are named for what they are, or to let them freely talk about those problems. So the question I have is this: Why should children trust us? That's the part that I think the censors have not thought through carefully.

In every era and in every culture, warnings abound regarding the errors to which that culture is least prone. In puritanical eras, pastors preach about the dangers of indulging the flesh. In indulgent eras, TV talk show hosts warn about the dangers of puritanism. In an era of "walk tall" and "stand proud," it takes courage to teach humility. And it won't earn you many friends.

Suddenly I heard Virginia's voice calling to me from the sitting room window: "Hitler is making a speech." I shouted back, "I shan't come. I'm planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead.

Savage is he who saves himself.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death

Fences made of fear.

Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame," read Georgina, cackling with mirth.

Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame.