Quotes About Courage

You can keep company with despair, or you can choose a different companion.

William Kent Krueger

Spirit is at the heart of everything, and there's nothing more powerful. Trust your spirit.

I'm strong," the woman replied. "I can take this." Henry said, "You have always been strong, Leah, but a sweat is not about enduring. It is about yielding.

William King

fear is fear if you allow it to rule you it doesn't matter of what you are afraid of" - Maiev Shadowsong

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

Each sunrise in America ushers in new opportunities to those who keep their chins up … who never lose that lusty courage and willingness that made ours the most envied nation on earth,

Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming they won't be cowed. Leaders who really have strengthened the voice of freedom don't don't need to reassure there electorates that they're committed to doing so.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

Don't face up to your problems with honesty and courage. That's just crazy. You're better off burying them under an avalanche of sarcasm.

A hint of nonconformity was all he would risk.

Who will bell the cat?

My great fear in this life didn't have a name that I knew of. I was afraid of remaining exactly who I was, and that phobia instilled a shiver of fear into every one of my days. Something as simple as a fear of cats would have been a blessing.

The thing I love about a blue drink is that it isn't pretending to be anything other than a prissy, made-up concoction for people who can't drink their whiskey straight. A cocktail with the courage of its lack of conviction.

And he clutched it tight in his fist, as if it were his final, brightest hope in a world of tragic illusions.

I think that money it is the goal of cowards. Money is what you end up wanting if you don't have putz enough to stand up and decide for yourself. Money is what they want you to want so that you will work for them every day of your life and buy what they sell and fill your house and your soul with their junk. It is for those without the courage to decide for themselves.

There are two kinds of adventurers those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

Let Southern oppressors tremble—let their secret abettors tremble—let their Northern apologists tremble—let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

He wasnt afraid of dying, only of having not done all he could, and not properly spitting in the eye of death when it came for him. That final gesture was important.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.