Quotes About Courage

It doesn't matter what others think of you if you are fulfilling your life's purpose. If you worry about what other people think or say, you give away your power, and that is a surefire way to live an unfulfilled life. You must not try to be like others. Be original. Speak differently, act differently, and work differently. A spiritless person lacks courage and energy. Remember the child you once were?

there is nothing so threatening to systemic evil as those willing to stand against it regardless of the consequences.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7 AMP)

He'd felt the same way some nights on patrol, hearing the jungle shift and creak around him in the dark. His head saying, go ahead, take your best shot, I'm not scared of you slanty-eyed buttwipes. And at the same time his heart was trying to parachute out his asshole.

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. —MAYA ANGELOU1

No man can be any greater or any stronger, in Christianity, than his faith.

He will help us carry it. Look! Our king enters in before us, and he will fight for us. Let us follow bravely, fearing no terror. Let us be prepared to die bravely in battle. Let us not be dishonored by fleeing from the cross.

Courage and honor, respect and even pity, justice and, yes, you may not like for me to say it, but let me use the word - love? Do you know these words, Mahn? A love for your children, so deep that you would die for them? Or maybe a love of justice, so pure that it demands that you speak out? These are the feelings that push the world forward.

Ik waande ons onschendbaar en als iets niet stuk kan, doe je er automatisch een stuk minder voorzichtig mee. Heel normaal, dat is menselijk. Nee, het is niet normaal, maar zo zijn mensen. Het onkwetsbare moet gekwetst worden.

A German infantryman wrote in his diary, 'Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.'22

War is not as the people at home imagine it, with a hurrah and a roar: it is very serious, very grim.'5

I had absolutely no idea what I was doing or how to do it or what it would mean for me to start over again; I just knew it was time to go.

Everything is a risk. That's what's hitting so many people so hard right now, here, as we approach May 2020. They didn't know that they didn't know.

When you slide down a mountain, or jump off a cliff, you accept the not knowing. Don't tell me how it ends; let me see for myself.

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Attempt something so big, that unless God intervenes, it's bound to fail.

De fleste af os har drømme, men lægger dem til side som umulige. Men Gud lægger aldrig et ønske i vort hjerte eller giver os tegn til at gå ud på vandet, med mindre han ønsker, at vi skal gå ud i tro og i det mindste gøre forsøget.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

I was fifty years old, then, when I crept forth from my hiding place, my eyes blinking in the strong light. p 317

Experience is the best antidote for fear. An inexperienced climber doesn't know whether to trust a tiny foothold the size of a penny, but it can feel as safe as a carpeted hallway to an experienced climber.

By the heavens!' he exclaimed. 'Anyone who can save the captain's life and tame that wild beast certainly deserves to be a member of this crew, female or not.

Hesitation is a half way to death

The one who never draws a bow, never strikes.

Fortitudo/sapientia - strength and bravery/wisdom and humility