Quotes About Courage

So it came to the morning of 21 October 1805, a day that would live for ever in the minds of those who were there.

day that lives still, in the annals of the Royal Navy.

For a man who had been in action 120 times by the age of thirty-nine, Nelson was bearing up well,

They thought him pusillanimous,

Whatever doubts there may have been about their seamanship, there were none as to their courage.

Napoleon had been in the thick of it, leading from the front.

Villeneuve's flagship.

To Midshipman Badcock, watching from two ships behind the Victory, the scene was one he would never forget.

He could even have come by air, as individual balloonists already had.

Rather than allowing technology to control us, Mumford implied, we can control technology—if only we can muster the courage to exert the full power of our free will over the machines we make.

don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. —NADIA COMANECI, Olympic gold medal gymnast

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

First Baptist of Ivy Gap

You don't feel courageous because courage is not an emotion. There is no such thing as feeling "courageous." It is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don't want to. In the face of danger, you have a choice to be the delegate of either your commitments or your feelings. It's as simple and as difficult as that. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon

It takes courage to tell the truth about what you are committed to. Most of us are not completely, unshakably committed to having a truly marvelous career or marriage or anything else. For the most part, we are committed to comfort, low risk, and equilibrium. Remember, wanting/wishing and commitment are two completely different domains.

wages and rewards of going with the flow of your programming. The willingness to feel fear and keep going forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.