Quotes About Courage

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Most important thing in life, he would say, is learning how to fall.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.

Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.

No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.

Never were we freer than under the German Occupation.

Those who hide their complete freedom from themselves out of a spirit of seriousness or by means of deterministic excuses, I shall call cowards; those who try to show that their existence was necessary, when it is the very contingency of man's appearance on earth, I shall call stinkers. But cowards or stinkers can be judged only from a strictly unbiased point of view.

The existentialist portrays a coward as one who makes himself a coward by his actions, a hero who makes himself heroic.

Êtes-vous si fort dans l'art de la dispute? demanda le curé, vous l'emportez sur les nôtres ! Je n'ai pas disputé, répondit M. de Rollebon, je lui ai fait peur de l'enfer.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.