Quotes About Courage

This] shell . . . eventually becomes a tomb. The situation is truly tragic. To break out of the shell is to risk death but to stay in the shell, which is a living death, threatens one also with actual death, more inevitable but slower.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.

Creative ideas in people's minds, but they fall into the trap of fear or rejection. Create a free judgment Wednesday and you spawn a thread creation.

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies

Atheists put on false courage in the midst of their darkness and misaprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark,will sing or whistle to keep their courage.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law: While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-` 'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy' - Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I

No place so scared from such frops is barred Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard Na fly to alter there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew: Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Cehennem korkusuna, polis korkusuna, ceza korkusuna dayal? bir iyilik, iyilik say?lmaz — bu korkakl?ktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. Ödül, övgü ya da cennet beklentisine ba?l? iyilik, rü?vetçili?e girer. Günümüz ahlâk? çocuklar? korkakla?t?rmaktad?r çünkü kendisi ya?amdan korkutmaktad?r. S?k?düzenden geçirilen ö?rencilerin 'iyili?i' asl?nda i?te budur.

I am afraid Luther will not recant, Holy Father,' Cajetan said. 'I looked into his eyes. He would not recant even facing the fire of the stake.' 'I have no problem with the fire of the stake either.' Leo X answered.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

It is easier to find courage for the daring act of a moment, and it requires less inner strength, than does the long patience of enduring physical suffering, deeply driven by a spiritual interest to move forward, disregarding the certainty of encountering again, but with weakened faculties, the same deprivations on the return trip.

But when the wheel next turns, it could turn in the devil's own direction. That's why we put our shoulder to it.

Alexander Woollcott

Yes, I am more Russian than many others, and I will not sit still

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Cowboy up, cupcake.