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Quotes About Courage

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~ William Jennings Bryan
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
~ William Jennings Bryan
The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
~ William John Wills
Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!
~ William Joyce
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.
~ William Kennedy
But fear is a cheap emotion, however full of wisdom. And, emotionally speaking, I've always thought of myself as a man of expensive taste.
~ William Kennedy
Do something new and you are new. How boring it is not to fire machine guns.
~ William Kennedy
Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.
~ William Kennedy
that people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.
~ William Kent Krueger
Buck, the heart is a rubber ball. No matter how hard it's crushed, it bounces back.
~ William Kent Krueger
If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't have to be afraid anymore.
~ William Kent Krueger
people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined.
~ William Kent Krueger
You are the light. The darkness will always try to snuff you out.
~ William Kent Krueger
There will be courage in this story and cowardice. There will be love and betrayal. And, of course, there will be hope. In the end, isn't that what every good story is about?
~ William Kent Krueger
Across the dark night, we are not afraid. Our love is the star that guides us. Through the empty desert, we do not thirst. Our love is the water that refreshes. On the long journey, we do not weary. Our love is the truth that offers strength. As the mountains rise before us, we are not discouraged. Our love is the hope that waits on the other side. When we are together, let us hold hands. Our love is the promise that is never broken.
~ William Kent Krueger
I generally played a little fast and loose with my resources but I figured hell, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, especially in a stupid board game.
~ William Kent Krueger
God makes His presence known in many ways. In acts of love, in selfless acts of courage, in everyday human compassion.
~ William Kent Krueger
is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
~ William Kent Krueger
Which turned out to be a thing I couldn't do. Not because imagination failed me, but because I was afraid to dream in that way. In my whole life, I could recall no dream ever coming true.
~ William Kent Krueger
people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined. So
~ William Kent Krueger
In a way, they weren't that different from the kids at Lincoln School, who'd been thrown together with almost nothing. But Lincoln School had been overseen by the likes of DiMarco and the Black Witch and her lizard-on-two-legs husband, and fear had been what we'd all shared the most. With the crusade, the spirit of Sister Eve ran through everything, and that made all the difference.
~ William Kent Krueger
Cork, promise me something." "What?" "You won't do anything that'll get you hurt." "I'm not what you'd call a brave man," he assured her. She sighed, her breath making the hair at the back of his neck shiver. "Maybe not, but you're stubborn, and that's just as bad." After
~ William Kent Krueger
In all my life I've learned two things." He pointed to the black patch over his eye. "One is never call a small man in a uniform 'Shorty.' The other is that nothing is ever hopeless.
~ William Kent Krueger
That is one thing love does. It tests us in difficult ways. But love is also fear's worst enemy. In what is ahead of you, hold to your love and not your fear. And when you imagine, imagine the best of what might be.
~ William Kent Krueger