Quotes About Courage

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

Fairy tales are more then true, not because they tell us that Dragons exist. But because they tell us Dragons can be beaten.

TOM … Go on, jump in there. (Prompts her.) Be brave. HELEN You're absolutely sure it's dead, right? Because if it's just holding its breath, then I'm … LaBute, Neil (2004-11-29). Fat Pig: A Play (p. 27). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.

Neil S. Plakcy

Neil S. Plakcy

Veterans of Foreign Wars, who

Neil S. Plakcy

Beneath Ba's bravado, he was a conservative man. He did not lack courage. Neither was he a professional risk-taker like Vann. He had been an officer in a colonial army that had lost its war. He was fighting this second war for the Tory regime of his class. He was doing precisely what could be expected of a man who had grown up in a system where, when in doubt, the best thing to do was to do nothing. He was stalling.

President Kennedy would have been better served if he had remembered from his days as a junior officer in the Navy that the closer one gets to a fight, the more one learns of its essence.

Neil Sheehan

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. [If he had], Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Because, all too often, the things that we're the most resistant to are precisely what we need. And the things we're most scared to let go of are exactly the ones we most need to relinquish.

Fear of anything other than God is mutually exclusive to faith in God.

Jimmy always preached' Charge a pistol. Run from a rifle

As long as you show that you're willing to take it further than them, they'll tend to back off, whoever they may be.

Strength, confidence and invincibility had to exude from him at all times. Any vacuum in power could lead to injury, betrayal or death.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Only love can break your heart.

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of "passing," this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take one's chance in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but certainly not entirely friendly.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I am the captain of my soul.