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Quotes About Courage

Poverty plus confidence equals pioneers. We never doubted.
~ William Stafford
For my young friends who are still afraid There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot--air far down, a snap that might have caught. And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing voice that finds its way by being afraid. That country is there, for us, carried as it is crossed. What you fear will not go away: it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
~ William Stafford
What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
~ William Stafford
They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.
~ William Stafford
The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.
~ William Steig
Don't be afraid. There is no more to fear. Do not fear rejection. If you fear rejection by another you do not love the other, though you may profess it. You are only being anxious for his love of you. The free man does not seek the love of others, nor fear that his love will be rejected, for rejection - as is known from the night Christ was betrayed - does not destroy love, and it does not destroy the one who loves. Don't be afraid, you are not alone.
~ William Stringfellow
The characteristic place to find a Christian is among his very enemies.
~ William Stringfellow
Now I have a choice. I can go back up, collect my football, and head home; or I can go through. I know what I ought to do. I know what every other boy in Amarias would do. But as I see it, those are the two best reasons there could possibly be for doing the opposite.
~ William Sutcliffe
It sounds crazy, but I'm not even scared when I decide to go for it. Frankly, it's the only logical course of action. If you have the chance to uncover a secret and you walk away without looking, there's something wrong with you.
~ William Sutcliffe
There are no athiests in foxholes.
~ William T. Cummings
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
~ William T. Sherman
General Polk, who was dignified and corpulent, walked back slowly, not wishing to appear too hurried or cautious in the presence of the men, and was struck across the breast by an unexploded shell, which killed him instantly.
~ William T. Sherman
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Hold the fort! I am coming!
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
My aim then was, to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Now we shall see which of us are good knights!
~ William the Lion
There are no atheists in the foxholes.
~ William Thomas Cummings
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~ William Ury
O ye who lead,Take heed!Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.
~ William Vaughn Moody
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~ William W. Johnstone
William W. Johnstone
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