Quotes About Courage

Son, hiding the truth is just the coward's way to lie.

Honestly?" Logan shrugged. "I didn't know it could kill me. If I'd ever heard that, I forgot it a long time ago. But I knew it was dangerous." "Then why take the risk?" Stone asked. Logan turned his head to look at me. "Because she was worth it.

Carrie, at forty-six, has had to learn that an entire set of previous behaviors are no longer acceptable. "I don't have the option of cutting myself, or overdosing, or being hospitalized anymore. I vowed I would live in and deal with the real world, but I'll tell you, it's a frightening place. I'm not sure yet whether I can do it or whether I want to do it.

Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.

Un tom?r nakts d?v? droš?bas un sp?ka saj?tu. T?s varen?bas priekš? m?su s?k?s b?das apkaunotas atk?pjas.

Noto che la gente fa sempre giganteschi preparativi per il bagno quando si sta per avvicinare all'acqua, ma che poi, una volta nei pressi, sono ben pochi quelli che si tuffano.

War still was the stern school where men learnt virtue, duty, forgetfulness of self, faithfulness unto death.

I cannot help thinking that if the tens of thousands of decent American men and women to whom this thing must be their country's shame, would take their courage in both hands and speak their mind, America might be cleansed from this foul sin.

If I succeed, if I am strong enough to figth the world for myself and win, that will mean I am strong enough and clever to help others

But I've won, she said. I'm dying further forward. I've helped advance the line.

Non è utile andar sempre secondo corrente. V'è più soddisfazione nell'affrontarla e combatterla, e andare innanzi a suo dispetto [...]

Harris said: "If you never try a new thing, how can you tell what it's like?  It's men such as you that hamper the world's progress.  Think of the man who first tried German sausage!

One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

And I pray, if there are ever two children who come visit my home here, that you will give them the courage to say shalom, so that they will know they do not have to remain in hiding. Amen

When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown!

Jerry B. Jenkins

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.

i chose not to run

I don't understand women at all. Like how a women can pour boiling hot wax onto their upper thigh, then rip the hair out by the root... and still be afraid of a spider.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.