Quotes About Courage

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

As Brown writes: "When our self-worth isn't on the line, we are far more willing to be courageous and risk sharing our raw talents and gifts." One way to embrace creativity, Brown says, is to let go of comparison.

No atheists in foxholes, they say. I think that, given the power of the Holy Spirit as manifested in the Glenlivet distillery, there shall soon be only good Roman Catholics afloat. Well . . . and perhaps the odd Presbyterian. Now if only I can find something suitable to bless for the benefit of Sinbad

Panzergrenadiere, Vorwärts, zum Siege voran! Panzergrenadiere, Vorwärts, wir greifen an! —Robert Seeger, "Lied der Panzergrenadiere

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others. —John Eldredge

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. —Theodore Roosevelt,

Nooit meer zwijgen, Altijd schrijven. Nooit meer sprakeloos, BEGIN

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their county; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...

France's brilliant general Maurice de Saxe displayed audacious courage at twelve and commanded a regiment by seventeen

Knights Templar.

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Successful men are defined by thier actions; Unsuccessful men are defined by actions not taken.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible. I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

We "overvalue performance," as one psychologist put it, "and undervalue the self." We're afraid of being just okay at things. This is a trap. "For to permit yourself to do only that which you're good at," writes the legal scholar Tim Wu, "is to be trapped in a cage whose bars are not steel but self-judgment.

Letting someone else's ideas about performance stop you from trying something means relinquishing your freedom.

I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back