Quotes About Courage

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

What's important is that, when you're tested, you stand firm against the violent activities of those who would try to plunge our people back into the misery of the past.

As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.

I was the victim of a violent attack in March 2008. I had sulphuric acid thrown in my face and was severely injured leaving me with loss of site in my eye and full thickness burns on my neck, chest, face and hands.

Bonanza' was never a violent show, yet it is set in an era when men wore guns and violence was a fact of life.

France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.

I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Unlike in Washington, Virginia's leaders don't run from serious problems. We tackle them.

For centuries, from the dirt roads of Trenton, to the hills of Virginia, to the trenches of Amiens, our armed forces never fought in a war they didn't win.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess I should be a little tougher. The feedback I get always is that I am not as tough and demanding as I should be.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.