Quotes About Courage

He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters.

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

For love of country they accepted death.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

You will lose your hand, find your fist and gain an ally. You will also meet your enemy face-to-face.

If not wisdom then certainly truth. If you've nothing to lose you've nothing to fear losing.

Still, one does what one must.

What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

Sometimes all the procedures in the world can't protect you . . . but that's no reason to walk up to something that looks like a lion and kick it in the ass.

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead." He paused, then added,

But then he remembered what George had told him about pain. You know what you can do, even if your body says quit. It's only pain. "It's only pain, he thought, hearing George's voice and seeing his eagle-face. If anyone would know, George would, he thought. And truly, he thought, it's the most useful one thing a body can know.

May we be strong by doing what is right

Weshecat-welo k'weshe-laweh-pah, let us be strong by doing right.

James Alexander Thom