Quotes About Courage

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.

Whether she knew it then or not, she would bore into her own interior, confronting an unknown as wild and uncertain as any new world a missionary had seen. A place as rare as Noah's.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.

First rule of life, Idina. Everybody screws up. What matters is whether we let that stop us in our tracks or we tell it to fuck off so we can get back on our feet and keep going.

Today is a part of a long journey and this isn't the last chapter. It's just one of those middle ones that takes some courage to walk through to see what comes next.

Despite everything, this is a very good day. Remember that, both of you. There will be horrors in the world that you won't be able to solve without some anguish. But it doesn't mean you can't find moments of joy.

She is tough, like a Quiner woman. She works hard and she doesn't feel sorry for herself. At the same time she won't let someone else tell her what she should do with her life.

God calls us to a wild adventure, not a tea party, my dear. I don't follow Jesus because he can give me a life without pain. I follow him because he is good. Someday I will follow him right through death, and into our Heavenly Father's house." Aunt Wealthy

God doesn't want you to wait, he wants you to live.

Martha Freeman

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

I have no intention of being a footnote in someone else's life." [on being a war correspondent during WWII]

The latrine broke my lion heart.

The white hunter was laughing happily, his adoring girl was open-mouthed in admiration for his nerve, I was sweating with dismay and outrage, and then an elephant charged and did not stop and our hero stepped hard on the gas and drove off, saying, "Not bluffing that time." So now I knew, lucky me, what a medium-size elephant stampede was like. Doomed to see elephants in the company of lunatics. All I wanted was to watch them with love and respect, at a reasonable distance.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

If you take employee engagement seriously, you take on a no halfway, no turning-back high adventure of finding out just how far your personal and organizational courage will take you.

I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat? —Joseph Conrad         We