Quotes About Courage

I cannot imagine how hard it must be for you. Just be strong a little longer. Pray to God, and you will see that He will answer you. I pray for you every night... just as I taught you to do.

The man walked off into the crowd, and before I knew it, he'd disappeared. There I was with my suitcase, in the middle of the Istanbul Airport. Alone. I didn't even realize I was crying until I saw the tears hitman shoes. Outside was dark. Night. I was nine years old and by myself in a foreign land. I didn't even speak the language. Quite simply, I was terrified" (Kazerooni, 2014, p. 45).

I've had some good times, had some bad. Took some lumps. Scored some points. Half-way through life, at 43, I still say, 'go for broke.' No government, no FBI, no judge, no jailer is ever gonna make me say 'uncle.' Now, as then, let the game continue. I bet my stake on freedom's call; I'll play these cards with no regrets.

Live your life like it is the last day you live!

C'est en s'engageant dans l'action que l'on bat la peur.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I like stubborn, wily survivors, and wish I could be one myself. So the next day I walked to his office, to extend my appreciation of his doggedness and to wish him a joyful time of it.

The Germans were afraid of nothing.

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

You have to talk about the things that cause you pain.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

I think I am very brave, upon the whole. If danger comes near my dwelling, I suppose I shall shudder.