Quotes About Courage

grossly evil people or very stupid people—or evil stupid people—are in charge of almost everything, and the good smart people are afraid to oppose them because the evil people are vicious and the stupid people are too clueless to see where all this is going, and the people who are both evil and stupid, well, they're the worst of all.

Tenderness is false mercy. It's easy, emotion without reason. Mercy takes strength, courage, love. Tender-hearted folks will never be there for you when the dark is darkest.

This is his life: confrontation with the darkness that has nothing to do with an absence of light.

Saffron "Sunny" Ketterling

After all I've lost, what's left to lose?

After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to live henceforth with a minimum of suffering. And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless

She is a kick-ass kind of girl, who not only knows what she wants, but what she should want, which makes all the difference. When you meet her in service, you'll know her, sure enough. You'll know her, and you'll love her.

Lee Shacket

She isn't a survivalist, but she intends to survive.

a German shepherd—that lost one leg in a violent encounter

Lisa Chelgrin.

Carson Conroy's

Boris Sergetov

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

Joel Bandiri

Even though she knew it wasn't biologically possible for her heart to rise into her throat, she swallowed it anyway.

He would never claim to be a hero. However, there were moments when you had to show up, be there, assume risks, take bold action, if you still wanted to call yourself a man.

She stiffened her resolve with a line of Eliot's verse: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us when we least expect it.

In days of old, a good king might reward one of his subjects for courage and service to the crown by having a trusted knight deliver a guerdon, a bag of gold coins.

Who is more foolish—the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? —MAURICE FREEHILL

actually Dorian Purcell.

Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of a deep hole. The second hand was faith—the faith that her hope would be borne out;

As long as we're not soaked in blood and trying to stuff our intestines back into our bodies through a gut wound, we'll be okay.