Quotes About Courage

Those of us who dream about doing what hasn't been done are bound to ruffle feathers. Well, let 'em ruffle

Every damsel in distress deserves a hero...

Whatever you do, act as if you meant to do it even if you're sure you look like a fool.

The brutality of war could damage even the best of men.

Dysis stared at her over the top of the shower door, unself-conscious and angry. "You came all this way for some lovesick suicide mission? Yeah, I'd say that's stupid.

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

Why does anyone fight a war? To protect a way of life, to find or support loved ones. To avenge those lost. Or maybe because it's a calling. Because someone has to. Because there's a line no enemy should be allowed to cross.

Dianthe cleared her throat and said softly, "I do this because I believe a woman should have the right to fight and die for her dominion, just like any man. We are no longer a population in danger of extinction. There's no reason for our leaders to ban women from making this choice. So I help them make it anyway. Even if it means giving up who they are. Even if it means joining Military as ghosts.

Accepting that you can't control the outcome is not the end of action—it is the opening for the boldest and most daring action. You can accept total responsibility for your choices and actions. You are free to play full-out in creating and implementing an extraordinary future for yourself and your organization.

Following that declaration, you would make whatever bold promises are suggested to you by the imperative of your declaration.

You are shifting from … … "what's possible" occurring as "what's predictable," bound by the limits of past experience … … to … … "what's possible" occurring as what you say is possible and what you commit to make happen, based on nothing.

Replace "predicting the future" (by analyzing what's possible, benchmarking, setting objectives or goals, or making feasible promises) with "declaring the future" and making bold promises to fulfill it.

I think I will drink my hemlock now....

Once upon a time, a woman told this to her daughter: Save yourself. The girl didn't think to ask for what? She looked into her mother's face and answered Yes. Years later, alone in the room where she lives The daughter listens to the life she's been saved from: Evening patter. Summer laughter. Young bodies Racing into the unmitigated happiness of danger.

Look, I want to say, The worst thing you can imagine has already Zipped up its coat and is heading back Up the road to wherever it came from.

You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Thank God we can't see the future, we'd never get out of bed.

We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.

I looked Death right in the face.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

Travis Neighbor Ward

Okay, Fish, we fly in there, and we kill those motherfuckers,

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something 100%, because I had never reached true failure.