Quotes About Courage

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt: "No one on the face of this earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

I've never let myself get scared off anything in my life and I wasn't gonna start now. You back down once, there's no telling when it'll stop. You let yourself get scared and it never goes away. It fucks up your judgments.

Church has believed that parents probably wont' assume responsibility for their own children's growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a "drop-off" mentality. Maybe the greatest gift a church can give parents is the confidence and courage to do what God has wired them to do.

People change when the pain associated with the status quo is greater than the pain associated with the change.

Leaders secure in their call will charge hell with a water pistol.

The world was still a turbulent and uncertain place. And there were serpents. But serpents still make the world a place for adventures , Rose reminded herself.

Every once in awhile you just have to go out and do something, very crazy and very right, just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean something stupid and destructive, just something fun and good and beautiful.

Every once in a while you just have to decide to something very crazy and very right-- just dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive-- just something fun and good and beautiful.

Alex glanced at Sam and David, who looked soberly back at him. "Okay guys? Remember your training: 'A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must desire life like water and drink death like wine.

Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive--just something fun and good and beautiful.

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

The only difference between your average man and a hero is that the hero figures out what to do before it's too late,' He nudged her aside and, with a few pulls, filled her bucket. 'Then he has the nerve to go on and do it.' Betsy leaned back as if she was trying to get a complete view of him from head to toe. 'Is that all it takes to make a good hero?' 'One more thing. A hero always comes back for his lady.

Was life measured by the trouble you avoided, or by the obstacles you overcame? God had made her for trouble, equipped her for hardship. She'd do her share and then some. Most of all, she'd buttress the man who faced the dangers for all of them. He wouldn't do it alone. Not while she had blood pumping in her veins.

He searched her face. "Don't worry about the painting. It'll take care of itself. But you can't let this determine your future. You'll find other quests. You'll face other challenges. All I'm asking is that you face them like a woman with backbone, not the self-conscious woman who hid behind her grandfather the day she arrived. Making your own path will take courage, and you have that courage.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

He'd captured bandits, stopped vandals and settled disputes with hostile natives. Who would have thought the one thing to terrify him was the thought of loving a pretty woman named Beth Wallin?

It's perfectly acceptable to survive, even if others didn't.

This gift prevents us from weakening, from letting ourselves be disheartened, and it lifts up our courage in the midst of difficulties.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living