Quotes About Courage

To become an original, we have to be willing to take some risks. When we go against the grain to upend time-honored traditions, we can never be certain that we will succeed. As journalist Robert Quillen wrote, "Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second and keep one foot on first base.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The sweeping message of the Bible is not a promise that those who believe and do good will not suffer. Instead the Bible is largely a book about people who refused to let go of their faith in the face of suffering.

The worst thing is never the last thing.

more like pleas from nuns about to be shown the facts of life by Bonaparte's grenadiers, than a sailor's concern for his ship.

Everyone has nightmares. They're tough sometimes. You wake up and you get on with things. That's just how it is.

Casement quoted an African proverb: "A man doesn't go among thorns unless a snake's after him—or he's after a snake." He added, "I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

Men of my generation," wrote the French novelist Albert Camus, "have had Spain in our hearts. . . . It was there that they learned . . . that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded.

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

How to explain his country to her, he wondered. How to explain that leaving its confines to sail upon the Sea of Japan - that was being free. Or that as a boy, sneaking from the smelter floor for an hour to run with other boys in the slag heaps, even though there were guards everywhere, because there were guards everywhere - that was the purest freedom.

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robe, snot running freely from her nose. "Go away," she said. "I'm afraid I can't do that," he said. "I

It's just a thing that sometimes has to be done and even if thirty thousand suffer with you, you suffer alone." She

Here is the safety belt," he said to Jun Do. "A hero may wear one or not, as he wishes. I am old and have no need for safety, but Comrade Buc, you must apply the belt. You are young, you have a wife and children.

Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.

Commander Ga went on, "I know you pretended to be asleep one morning to give me more time to study you, to allow me to see the knot in your collarbone where someone had hurt you. You let me see the scars on your knees, scars that tell me you once knew real work. You wanted me to know the real you.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

I feel like a millionaire on the back of an armored jet-ski my samurai girlfriend who loves me is charging at a cartel speedboat to win a game of chicken. Isn't this the day's best part? You don't even have to remember to enjoy it. It enjoys you into itself.

Fear is contempt, whether the fearful know it or don't.

Our plastic muskets, though powderless, will frontload, and our coup will not be bloodless, nor will the blood be lambly. It will stain the lion's den whose bars though invisible are verily there as well roll along, doo-da doo-da and a thousand lonely dirges.

But you do know, as you stand alone, handcuffed, with your eyes filled with tear gas, in front of policemen who are shaking their guns at you-you can see it clearly in the dark and starless night, thanks to your favourite poet - that the course of the avalanche depends on the stone over which it rolls. And you want to be the stone that will reverse the course of events.

?ywy, o nic przed nikim nie umia?em ?ebra?, ?ebra? lito?ci nie b?d? umar?y!