Quotes About Courage

Pro patria mori,

She was fierce because she was afraid. Of everything. The rest of the world saw a strong, noble lioness. He looked at his daughter and saw Bert Lahr, though he'd never tell her that. Or her husband.

You don't want to go into your head alone, mon petit. It's a very scary place.' The

Emily Carr. And the ridicule she'd endured at the hands of gallery owners, critics, a public too afraid to go where she wanted to take them.

Ça va bien aller.

Fear saved lives. But fear could also kill.

You don't want to go into your head alone, mon petit. It's a very scary place.

Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.

It's hard to tell the truth sometimes, especially if you don't want to hurt someone. And you did. You said what you feel. And you must do what is right for you, not what other people say is right.

That's all I can give him; that's all that I dare to try to give him - something that he will love enough to want to preserve it for himself and for others against whatever danger may threaten from whatever quarter, and the toughness and courage with which to fight for it. To bring him up untouched by war, insofar as is possible in a world where no one is completely unaffected by war today, is about the only contribution that I know how to make for the future.

Life is not a dress rehearsal - nor do you have an understudy.

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

Always Follow your heart.....but take your brains with you

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

On previous trips the pirates have stolen valuables, killed people, raped and abducted girls...the women work frantically to ugly themselves up by smearing black charcoal paste on their faces and bodies. With ashen faces, some of the younger, prettier girls reach into the bags we have vomited into and scoop out handfuls of it to smear on their hair and clothes.

The Khmer Rogue soldier] screams a loud, shrill cry, that piercing my heart like a stake, and I imagine that this, maybe, is how Pa died. The soldier's head hangs, bobbing up and down like a chicken's... The woman raises her hammer again. I almost feel pity for him. But it is too late to let him go, it is too late to go back. It is too late for my parents and my country.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep, But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!

They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.

'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even though it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.