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Quotes About Courage

I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God has given us, to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalog of human crime. You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word. Victory, victory at all costs; victory in spite of all terror; victory however long and hard the road may be.
~ Unknown
Ole Massa always see that we get plenty to eat. O' course it was no fancy rations. Just corn bread, milk, fat meat, and 'lasses, but the Lord knows that was lots more than other poor niggers got. Some of them had such bad masters. Us poor niggers never allowed to learn anything. All the readin' they ever hear was when they was carried through the big Bible. The massa say that keep the slaves in they places.
~ Unknown
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Immortality—was electric-light slime reaching for the stars, and she stood poised on the brink, balanced on the razor-edge between life and death, the flickering and the eternal, the human and the immortal, sanity and the holy madness that was realer than sanity, more cogent, a path to oneness with the timeless infinite that could be hers if she had the courage to cast off her moorings to the shores of self and trust her fate to that all-forgiving sea.
~ Norman Spinrad
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities — always see them, for they're always there.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The generous and bold have the best lives.
~ Norwegian proverb
My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.
~ Novak Djokovic
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
~ Novalis
ah! tüket beni ey sevgili, sonuna kadar tüket ki, uykuya dalay?m ve sevebileyim. hissediyorum ölümün gençle?tirici ak???n?, kan?m merheme ve uzama dönü?mekte - ya??yorum gündüz vakitlerinde inanç ve cesaretle geceleri ise kutsal ate?te ölüyorum.
~ Novalis
Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature
~ Unknown
Through my tears I found god in myself and I loved her fiercely
~ Ntozake Shange
i got 15 trumpets where other women got hips & a upright bass for both sides of my heart
~ Ntozake Shange
i found god in myself & i loved her/ i loved her fiercely
~ Ntozake Shange