Quotes About Courage

Got any rivers they say are uncrossable, Got any mountains they say "can't tunnel through"? We specialize in the wholly impossible, Doing the things they say you can't do. song of the Panama Canal builders

If we would only move straight ahead in faith, the path would be opened for us . But we stand still, waiting for the obstacle to be removed, when we ought to go forward as if there were no obstacles at all.

Let loose the lines holding you to the shore and sail into the deep.

The eagle that soars at great altitudes does not worry about how it will cross a river. selected

Poverty, hardship and misfortune have pressed many a life to moral heroism and spiritual greatness. Difficulty challenges energy and perseverance. It calls into activity the strongest qualities of the soul.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.

It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

The hero pays the price.

The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything.

A key part of successfully being Julia, it seemed, was not giving a shit if you looked weird.

It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn't think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

Facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future.

Well, he wouldn't get fooled again. He wouldn't give anybody the chance. Quentin felt a new attitude of detachment descend on him. His molten anger and grief were cooling into a glossy protective coating, a hard transparent lacquer of uncaring. He felt how infinitely safer and more sound this attitude was. The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything.

He would lose whatever he had to lose, if that's what it took to win.

Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either.

Sometimes you just have to do things

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There were things he'd been scared to face his whole life, and now that he was looking them in the eye they weren't quite as scary as he first thought.

If being a hero is a matter of knowing your cues, like the fairy tale said, he'd missed his.

The situation wasn't ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,

With the traditional Australian's indifference to personal dryness and venomous underwater predators, she dived right in.