Quotes About Courage

It was such a hard thing, this virtue, it seemed to me. Keeping it was like having to grip the knife by the blade and defend yourself with the hilt. Ever since I'd been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull's-eye painted on my head in rouge. I was sure, as I was led away, I would be better off without it. It was better to be done with it and be gone.

the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure and success.

You could mistake your ability to go this far for strength. So you go on. Strength is admirable, after all, and you are ashamed of everything else about yourself. This endurance at least — this you can admire.

Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.

The sacrifice is usually chained to the rock. She does not usually dance out to meet her monster.

I am built for this terrible pain, I told myself, and sent myself on my way.

She said this watching my eyes as if she were testing the edge of a blade on me. And so I made sure not to flinch.

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They had the faces of angels and the determination of demons.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism

Real firmness is good for every thing— Strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

There are men who, under any circumstances, will have the courage to do their duty at every hazard.

My soul has ever abhorred the thought that a free man dared not speak the truth.

To see oneself in print is one of the strongest artificial passions of an age corrupted by books. But it requires courage, nevertheless, to venture on a public exhibition of one's productions.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

It's men, not ships, sir.

He wished those at home who took such people for granted could see them now. They did not care about the cause or the reason, and none had come to this place of his own free will. They fought like lions, for each other, for the ship around them. It was their world. It was enough.

Only the brave lie here.

It seems to be law inflexible and inexorable that he who will not risk cannot win. JOHN PAUL JONES

there was no better spot than a mountaintop for taking on the minions of the devil. He

Few people in our culture have the courage to be themselves. Most people adopt roles, play games, wear masks, or put up facades.

We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.