Quotes About Courage

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

History paints the human heart.

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We're throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

When history calls, history calls.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.