Quotes About Courage

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always avoided.

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The greatest leaders are reluctant ones who lead because they realize that no one else seems willing to step up.

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

A hero is one who wants to be himself .

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

What we also need is a constructive overarching vision of Christian engagement in today's advanced modern world, one that is shaped by faith in God and a Christian perspective rather than by current wisdom, and one that can inspire Christians to move out with courage to confront the best and worst that we may encounter.

The Spirit of Liberty" is not to be found in courts, laws and constitutions alone. "Liberty lives in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to save it. While it lives there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it."" The

Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.

Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried here.

Or again we might say that we are at a Daniel-like moment, for Daniel and his three friends faced a challenge unlike that of most of the Jews before them. The world as the Jews had known it for hundreds of years from Joshua onward had gone. Not since the captivity in Egypt had Jews been strangers in a strange land as they found themselves when defeated and deported as exiles to Babylon in the sixth century B.C.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like—no thanks.

I smiled in my weakness.

In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim.

Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of liquor. The desire to see frightening things—that was what drew me every night to the bar where, like the child who squeezes his pet all the harder when he actually fears it a little, I proclaimed to the customers standing at the bar my drunken, bungling theories of art.

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.

Real thought takes courage more than intelligence.

To be alive. To be alive. An intolerably immense undertaking before which one can only gasp in apprehension.