Quotes About Courage

people who know about such things insist there are only two basic emotions: Love and Fear. All other emotions, they say, are variations on either of these two themes. At every moment of every day we choose either love or fear.

Feel Your Fear and Do It Anyway, or What You Think of Me Is None of My Business.

To the memory of the glorious Ninety-two: members of the Honorable House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay who, undaunted by the insolent menaces of villains in power, from a strict regard to conscience and the liberties of their constituents on the 30th of June 1768 voted not to rescind.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

It is a disquieting fact that we tend to find villains more interesting than their victims – in fiction and in reality – but the Nuremberg Trials revealed that in real life criminals and murderers are invariably colourless individuals, who lack personality as well as compassion and conscience. It is their victims who frequently display courage and endurance beyond normal human experience. And

Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.

If you're going to fall for men, or boys, then deal with the fact that you're going to be an outcast. It's not for the faint of heart, it's not for anybody hoping to be liked or respected or accepted or any of that bullshit.

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Perhaps he had failed. Perhaps the Order had failed. But both had failed nobly. There was something to that.

Beings die in war. That is the price that must be paid

If good people won't do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.

She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage was good because it was a sign of selflessness, that ignorance was bad because fear sprang from it, that knowledge was good because the more you knew of the world's complexity the more clearly you saw the insignificance of the part you played.

They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it

Don't come crying to me, Stanley. Fight your own battles." Fight my own battles? I'm five!

Will you stand up an fight? he wondered bitterly. Or do you intend to remain on your knees for ever?

The funny thing is, they'll all go," said Raffix with a smile. "All the knights and all the squires promoted to replace them. Every last one of them." He smiled ruefully. "Even me." "But why?" said Quint. "I mean, if you doubt Hax..." "Because, my dear chap, this is the Knights Academy," Raffix replied. "We were born to stormchase.

You must understand that you do have the power to change your relationships and your life, but it is likely going to be frightening at first.

29But I said to you, "Have no dread or fear of them. 30The LORD, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt, 31as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.

5Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never forsake you or abandon you." 6Thus we may say with confidence: "The Lord is my helper, [and] I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?

command you: be strong and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD, your God, is with you wherever you go.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

the courage to die is the test of the courage to be.

Reasoning as a limited cognitive function, detached from the personal center, never could create courage. One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away.