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Quotes About Courage

See how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?
~ Dalton Trumbo
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
~ Unknown
The cells of my body store fear the way others' do fat. Every terrifying and traumatic thing I've ever experienced is still held within my muscle fiber as well as in my brain tissue. It pervades nearly every aspect of my life and influences nearly all my actions. Everyone thinks of me as being so brave, but I recognize my own cowardice in all I do. Sometimes I feel fear building up in my throat like a scream.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I think the biggest challenge in life is overcoming the urge to recoil in horror when you see blackness that lies slightly beneath the skin of the world.
~ Unknown
What is to give light must endure burning." It's by a writer named Viktor Frankl.
~ Unknown
There's no reason to fear anything when you float through the world like a dusty black ghost.
~ Unknown
Well, I know that you would love to go to heaven, but you know that you're just too afraid to die. And I know that you would love to know the answers, but to you, the truth is just another lie.
~ Unknown
Fight for all you hold dear. Die as if it counts. Life is not so hard Nor is death.
~ Unknown
Let me be brave and gay again Oh Lord, when my time is near. Let the god in me rise up and break The stranglehold of fear. Say that I die for Thee and the King, And what I hold most dear.
~ Unknown
freedom must be fought for, every day.
~ Unknown
stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, courage teach me to be shy... because it's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball.
~ Damien Rice
The Wall at the Edge of the World Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph I.
~ Unknown
There are many monsters, oh, many!
~ Damon Galgut
God, please help me! I can't go through
~ Damon Wayans
In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too.
~ Dan Abnett
I realised Larkin was crying. It shook me to see it. And, though I know what you're thinking, it didn't diminish him in any way. I'd known from the first moment I saw him he was an emotionally vulnerable man. He didn't falter in his duty for a moment. He kept up the pace, covered all the angles he was asked to. He didn't even seem to be aware that he was crying. But he wept.
~ Dan Abnett
Belief.' He reached into his vest and pulled out the silver aquila that he wore alongside his old dog-tags. 'In wartime, call it courage. In peacetime, call it faith. In the Guard, I saw men do amazing things... fight off infection, heal wounds... just because they believed. And I saw men die just because they didn't.
~ Dan Abnett
Some have said that I was crippled beyond the measure of a man. I do not see it that way. I believe I was liberated.
~ Dan Abnett
We march for Macragge!' The seargent declares 'No, not today,' Ventanus replied. 'Today, we march for Calth.'
~ Dan Abnett
Dorn shook out his shoulders, and raised his sword and shield. 'Try me,' he said. They rushed him.
~ Dan Abnett
I will miss the glory of this day,' said Sepatus sadly. Sanguinius placed a hand on his shoulder. 'Glory, Bel,' he said, 'awaits you wherever you walk.
~ Dan Abnett
If you are the last man standing, you're not fighting hard enough.
~ Dan Abnett
You don't find the things you're looking for if you don't break some rules. You have to walk in a few dark places on your own.
~ Dan Abnett
All right. Then will you let me walk the daeda waeg with you? Will you let me help you make the blood toll?' Eszrah nodded. 'Good, then.' Side by side, they clambered down through the rocks onto the desert floor. 'How many of them do we have to kill?' Mkoll asked. 'To make the blood toll, I mean?' Eszrah grinned. 'All of them, soule,' he said.
~ Dan Abnett