Quotes About Courage

Even in a seemingly futile moment or losing cause, one person may unknowingly inspire another, and that person yet a third, who could go on to change the world, or at least a small corner of it. Mandela called this process "the multiplication of courage.

Wherever the killing season should next begin and people should become strangers to their neighbors and themselves, my hope is that there will still be those ordinary men who say a quiet no and open the rooms upstairs.

Quiet, ordinary people are often the only people with the real ability to defeat evil. They can give it the Rwandan no.

Better to burn than to rot.

She showed courage and that's the most difficult thing in the world for any human being to show

Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that some of us stand on one bank and some on the opposite. So long as we stand like that we are not living at all, but dreaming. So jump, jump in, and let the shock wake us up. Even if we drown, at least for a moment or two before we die we shall be awake and alive. She

She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is living. The contribution of the whole of one's life, the whole of one's resources, to the world at large. This, like the courage to leap

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

The whole point of adventure is that it is unplanned; a leap in the dark, verging on the unfortunate, offering glimpses of danger; and what separates adventure from disaster is that you live to tell the tale.

though the journalists who have done so have paid a heavy price, being targeted by the cartels.

Australian inland taipan is the most poisonous snake on earth—its bite will kill you in seconds. But none of this ought seriously to deter anyone from confronting the outback on foot, or even on all fours.

Octavio Paz when he writes, "The Mexican chases after death, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, and sleeps with it. He thinks of it as his favorite plaything and his most lasting love.

on my trip whenever I felt obstructed or low, I thought of this valiant woman, and moved on.

I said that. "A veces, las personas—los paracaidistas—mueren." Sometimes the skydivers die. Dieter seemed pleased that I had challenged him

Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists.

My ideal traveler is the person who goes the old, laborious way into the unknown, and it is this belief that lies behind my travel, and drives me.

If optimism is the highest form of courage -- as I am beginning to believe it is -- then these students are all heroes.

Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

She never learned to value those things that white people valued. The greatest pride of the Kiowa was to do without, to make use of anything at hand; they were almost vain of their ability to go without water, food, and shelter. Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.

a reviewer should never be afraid to make a fool of himself.

It is something a man would never have thought of, or at least would never have dared express. And