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Quotes About Courage

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.
~ Mary Oliver
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.
~ Unknown
No one has yet figured out how to manage people effectively into battle; they must be led," wrote John Kotter
~ Unknown
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.
~ Mary Quant
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
~ Unknown
I wanted someone to follow, I wanted him to be brave. But he wants to be brave for me; and no one can do that.
~ Mary Renault
Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal. - Herakles
~ Mary Renault
the maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.
~ Mary Renault
Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
Man's immortality is not to live for ever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
At twenty-three, one is not frightened off a conversation merely by the fear of its becoming intense.
~ Mary Renault
I now know something about myself which I have been suspecting for years, if I had had the honesty to admit it. I ought to be frightened and ashamed, but I am not.
~ Mary Renault
Uno no teme una conversación simplemente por el miedo a que se vuelva intensa. Pero la intensidad puede constituir un poderoso disolvente de superficies protectoras finas y frágiles.
~ Mary Renault
Quiero decir que la legitimidad de una cosa no viene determinada por la cantidad de valor que exige. Debió de requerir mucho valor asesinar a Abraham Lincoln, por ejemplo. ?Muy cierto. Yo diría que probablemente han sido más los individuos con complejos de inferioridad que han cometido delitos para demostrar su virilidad que incluso los que lo han hecho por dinero.
~ Mary Renault
La moral es la munición de la guerra. ?Moral no es más que otra palabra que se usa para todo. ¿Qué quiere decir? ¿Valentía o sanguinariedad, o no hacer preguntas indiscretas, o quiere decir lo que cada día nos dicen que quiere decir?
~ Mary Renault
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
~ Mary Renault
Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
~ Mary Renault
Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.
~ Mary Roach
All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.
~ Mary Ruefle
Life is always there for the courageous! But change involves risk... and a kind of mourning for what you leave behind you.
~ Unknown
Giovanni was easy to love. He was not afraid to love, was fun in so many ways. He liked himself, which is the secret of much in life!
~ Unknown