Quotes About Courage

But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough is. Weakness is true and real. I used to accuse the kid of faking his weakness. But faking proves the weakness is real. Or you wouldn't be so weak as to fake it. No, you can't ever fake being weak. You can only fake being strong. . .

You're just a young kid. What are you doin' here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin' chicks and bangin' beaver. What are ya doin' here, for Christ's sake? What's funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin' but complain about how you can't stand it in this place here and then you haven't got the guts just to walk out!

Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to--

I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.

Or, perhaps, the fellows are ill at ease because they didn't stick up for their friend. Perhaps they are feeling guilty for the way they once again let her victimize them into being her interrogators. Cheer up, friends, you've no reason to feel ashamed. It is all as it should be. It's not the rabbit's place to stick up for his fellow. That would have been foolish. No, you were wise, cowardly but wise.

Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it. -- McMurphy

We almost made it that time. A little courage on someone's part and we might have made it. We were swollen and ripe for an instant together, ready for picking, offering our store to each other's hesitant fingers . . . a little tender courage at that rare right instant, and things might well have turned out differently. . .

one flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest. —Children's folk rhyme

Poate ca omul, cu cat e mai nebun, cu atat poate deveni mai puternic.

I understand perfectly; it's like the madman who goes over Niagara Falls in a coffee can because that's as good a way as any to get dead." "That's right," I tell him, knowing he don't understand it at all—that it's more because it's as good a way as any to stay alive. . . .

Sometimes it takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone.

When you face your fears, they no longer have power over you.

Si ubicas a tu Dios en la física actual, ese Dios también se tambaleará cuando la física se tambalee. Y eso es precisamente lo que preocupa a estos físicos místicos: no quieren que la física se distorsione, ni que el misticismo se empobrezca con un matrimonio condenado de antemano al fracaso. Gracia y coraje, 27-31

By the pink left nipple of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I feel you have Koztivkure slung on your back! Strike down the foul wizard, and have done! Aye, squeaked Tosho, for what he had you do to me, do as Krak says, and strike his blasphemous head from his loathsome shoulders!

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him

Size is no guarantee of power.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.