Quotes About Courage

Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!Long has it waved on high,And many an eye has danced to seeThat banner in the sky;Beneath it rung the battle shout,And burst the cannon's roar—The meteor of the ocean airShall sweep the clouds no more.

En estas ocasiones, creo sinceramente que lo mejor es tragarse una cápsula de dinamita y encender, con toda tranquilidad, un cigarrillo.

No hay que confundir poesía con vaselina; vigor, con camiseta sucia.

Don't be silly, you only catch what you fear to catch", and, fearing nothing, he saw himself immune.

Very often, the things that you're most afraid of, are the things that you really just need to go for it.

In a world where liberty is in very short supply, there are worse heroes than a man who never stopped worshiping freedom.

In the midst of the fire he stood, not like burning flesh, but like bread baking. Martyrdom of St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna,

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

True "no-thought, no-mind" zazen is just one thing—to have a dauntless mind.

Opera producer Larry Kelly

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.