Quotes About Courage

Oh, I try not to regret things too much,' Mum said. 'Unless you're God and you know everything, including the past and the future, most of life is pretty much a question of closing your eyes and stabbing at a map. You have to try not to give yourself a hard time when things turn out to be not as good as you'd hoped.

But Minnie isn't tired. And she isn't sleeping either. She has simply run out of courage. It's not, as everyone keeps pretending, an unlimited resource. Because

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

Would your fear be any less and would you see that you had been chosen to help the sun rise? -Sabine to Matthew

Hope is optimism with a broken heart.

A myslí si pÃ…â"¢itom: V pohodÄ›, žádnej problém, kunda, kunda.

No dejéis que os digan que no hay monstruos.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Who in conscience would not choose to stand with them and against Jamaat-e-Islami, craven Indian politicians, apartheid South Africa, Islamist Iran, Wahhabist Saudi Arabia, the Tory intelligentsia, the Tory government, shabby Labour MPs playing Chicago politics, book-burners, life-deniers, witch-finders and murderers?

names of better and braver people than Assange could ever be in Afghanistan, China, Ethiopia and Belarus for their dictatorial enemies to find and charge with collaboration with the US.

Citizens exercised parrhesia, which translates as 'all speech', or sometimes 'true speech'.

Anyone who has worked in a hierarchical organisation must have noticed that bravery is rarely on display when a superior enters the room.

I want to tell my granddaughter the lesson of the book. The lesson that they can beat you, but they cannot defeat you. I must tell her that.

I'm just a Samurai with a gun. Like

Let the timid, and tempted, and cast down, in this cloudy and dark day, be encouraged to trust in God, and to remember that "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God" (Luke 18:27).

Wolves were burned alive, dragged to death behind horses, fed fishhooks inside meat, set free with mouths and penises wired shut.

invincibility that only drunks and fools know.

You ride, Vebla. Ride to live. When you can live, then you can choose how to die.

All men have flaws, it's what makes them men. The ability to see and mitigate one's own flaws is a measure of a man's greatness.

You scrape away your face and step into the dark...

We thought we could augment the band with an extra guitarist to take the pressure off Syd. Jeff Beck's name was mentioned, which would have been an interesting (and spectacular) experiment. I don't think any of us would have had the courage to make the phone call at the time. Roger eventually managed it twenty-five years later.