Quotes About Courage

Faint heart ne'er won a lady fair.

I don't think so,' said Harry calmly. 'You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward.

Wellington wrote in his memoirs,' said Old Jack, 'that the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle.

Fortune favours the brave.

They tried everything to break her, and they failed.

Compromise is for those who have no courage, no morals and no principles.

spilled their blood on European soil

nearest gutter if he thought it would

not even rape;

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

Olivia lit a cigarette and said, God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere!

For while my classmates found The Iliad too bloody for their taste, an endless catalogue of men butchering one another after formally introducing themselves, I thrilled to the stabbings and beheadings, the gouging out of eyes, the juicy eviscerations.)

When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

So, my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out in New Year's Eve.

But how come no one says anything to my face? I do dozens of events per year and I've met thousands of readers, and every single person I've ever encountered has been lovely. Why is that, I wonder? Am I more charming in person, or is it that face-to-face blunt-force-trauma honesty requires a modicum of courage?

all it took to succeed was to stop listening to my internal critic and to just start doing.

Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.

In order to kick ass you must first lift up your foot.     ââ'¬â€Jen Sincero; author, coach, self-quoter

Because so often when we say we're unqualified for something, what we're really saying is that we're too scared to try it, not that we can't do it.

Surrendering is the free-falling backwards into the unknown and trusting that The Universe will catch you.