Quotes About Courage

Your door is shut against my tightened face, And I am sharp as steel with discontent; But I possess the courage and the grace To bear my anger proudly and unbent.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Life isn't about waiting on the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Morale is more important than weapons!

A memory for details, Elena knows, is only for the brave, and being cowardly or brave is not something one can choose.

tuvo que meter las manos en el barro, en la inmundicia, para hacer lo que había que hacer, sin cometer ni delito ni pecado, ésa soy yo.

La memoria de los detalles, Elena sabe, es sólo para gente valiente, y ser cobarde o valiente no puede elegirse.

I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our lives. This is sweet. When she catches up with me, I say, How many, just how many forty-plus women would do that? We gaze back up at the face bleeding into the chute we've just skied. We *did* that, I crow. Someone should love us just for that. --Hangfire

I wasn't really eight anymore. The day you know danger and fear, and know that you are alone, is the day you grow, if not up, then old.

La fuerza, la inteligencia, la estupidez, la belleza, la cobardía, la debilidad son situaciones y papeles por los que, antes o después, pasamos todos nosotros. Quien abusa amparándose en la fatalidad de la vida o del propio carácter, una hora o un año después se verá atacado en nombre de las mismas inefables razones. Lo mismo sucede con los pueblos, con sus virtudes, sus caídas y sus apogeos.

The courage to put an end to war, to see the abysmal stupidity of it, is certainly no less than that needed to start one.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

The people that set one animal against another haven't the guts to be bullies themselves. They're just secondhand cowards.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

He calmly rode on, leaving it to his horse's discretion to go which way it pleased, firmly believing that in this consisted the very essence of adventure.

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

If you take big risks there are big rewards.

If someone's friendly to me, it's my nature to be friendly back to them. But a soldier who's not scared of the bullets is a fool.

Christ, cut us up to little pieces. We'll die for what is right! Put fruit trees where our ashes are!

Curiosity didn't kill the cat. It emboldened the cat.

Those who live in fear of failure slowly but inevitably fail.