Quotes About Courage

I will not fear my passions, like a coward; I will give my body entirely to pleasure, to dreamed-of joys, the most brazen erotic desires, the most depraved passions in my blood, all without fear.

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

To respond to the question of the meaning of life by simply reproducing yourself is to shift the question to the next generation. To not respond at all, or to not even try, isn't that the worst kind of cowardice?

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER.

What I write about is not war but the courage of man.

Along Dog Green and Dog White, a crusty fifty-one-year-old general named Norman Cota strode up and down in the hail of fire, waving a .45 and yelling at men to get off the beach. Along the shingle, behind the sea wall and in the coarse beach grass at the base of the bluffs, men crouched shoulder to shoulder, peering at the general, unwilling to believe that a man could stand upright and live.

This was the pattern. Brigadier General Cota, the 29th Division's assistant commander, had been setting an example almost from the moment he arrived on the beach.

Sergeant Donald Gardner of the 47th and his men were dumped into the water about fifty yards from shore. They lost all of their equipment and had to swim in under machine-gun fire. As they struggled in the water, Gardner heard someone say, "Perhaps we're intruding, this seems to be a private beach.

It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by being like this - fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is - if anything - ever to bring it back. ("Jane Brown's Body")

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")