Quotes About Courage

The war was just a mile or so away, and I wondered at my simply walking to it, as I might walk to the market or to school. Today I will walk to the war.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

You should have spoken up sooner." her grandmother answered. "No need to bear pain unless you have to.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Every day, I bang into the intolerable wall of my limits, but I just keep going on. Like a bicycle. If I stop, I'll fall.

Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.

In 1942 in Warsaw, we were living without hope, or rather on a hope we knew to be a delusion.

perché esistono dei mostri che nessuno può vincere in un combattimento faccia a faccia.

Tight-lipped, guided by reasons only, Cautiously let us step into the era of the unchained fire.

Human reason is beautiful and invincible.No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.

Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.

The scars you acquire by exercising courage, Will never make you feel inferior.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Hobey-ho here we go.....

Life is filled with challenges, blessing and the awareness that in life there are no guarantees. But one thing I'm sure of, is that for me, I'd rather die regretting the things I've done, then to regret the things I didn't do, but could have. So with this my new motto, I've decided to pursue what has lain quiescent in the back of my mind so now I write.

There are very few people in the world with courage enough to admit that they do not care for music (dogs and children come into the same category) and so brand themselves forever as Philistines in the eyes of their friends.

They left their comfortable homes... and fought..., and, because this was bread in their bone, they wanted no fuss.

She was a little frightened in anticipation and a little frightened when the test came, but fortunately she was in control of her fear. She pushed it into a corner of her mind and barricaded it in. This left her mind perfectly clear and free to function properly. Of course, one had to keep an eye on the barricade, though Frances, smiling to herself at the absurd simile; one had to see that it was holding firm and keeping the fear-beast from bursting out and making a nuisance of itself . . .

If you had told me eighteen months ago that German aeroplanes would fly over this house, and that I would not take any notice of them but just go on as usual, I should have thought you were mad!" I ask her what has changed her outlook and she replies, "I think we have got beyond being frightened for ourselves. We don't matter, Hester. It is Britain that matters now. We are all soldiers now . .

Don't be frightened of life, it's good. Make friends with life...

The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Sometimes she almost welcomed catastrophe as the concrete form of her fears—Here it is at last!—something seemed to say—you know now what it is, at any rate, and you can bear it.