Quotes About Courage

basis for decision making (Proverbs 29:25).

what people thought of him, then he was no longer a servant of Christ (Galatians 1:10).

So how does one prepare his or her heart for martyrdom?

I think it is important that we shed our false notions that martyrdom

a risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.

Deep down, very few of us want safety to suffocate freedom.

The Japanese samurai held the view that what was serious for the common man was but a game for the valiant. Noble

Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.

if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!

as to tell him so to his face. Our minister endeavored to

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

A man ought to avow his opinions and defend them with boldness.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Whether we commit seppuku by our own hands or are crucified by the executioner, our ultimate end is to die. This is a band of death, but death with honor!

People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.

The three of us are always in danger," said Arlo. "That's sort of our thing.

Arlo declares he wasn't destined to be a hero. "I wasn't chosen," he said. "I chose.

It was like rushing forward in the dark forest without knowing what danger lurked in front of my face.

she would freeze and be no help when the danger came. These street girls were never as tough as they made out.

Ronald Reagan said: "We are never defeated, unless we give up on God.

Belief is hard, and the abyss is always there, under one's feet.