Quotes About Courage

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.

The world's the hardest metal there is. You have to hammer it into the shape you want and often it'll break your hand just to try, but if you're the one holding the hammer, you've got a simple choice: to hammer or give up. It's better to let the hammer fall. You never know what might be waiting for you in the steel.

Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees

St Augustine had this to say about pressure: 'To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

Search all he parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees.

This is our fucking city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong. David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox, April 21, 2013

it is the essential and self-preserving act that must be taken if we intend to lead a better life. This bold and courageous step can only occur after we conquer our defensive illusions—both about our parents and about ourselves.

my own beloved sister, who is dearer to me than words can say and who came out as a lesbian

Then I discover when you take a step forward, even a small step, the fear doesn't exercise such a tight grip. It's still there but it's somehow reduced and you allow yourself to feel less of a helpless victim because ultimately it's the sense of powerlessness that does you in.

But there's nothing wrong with being scared. I think everyone's a little scared. Even the government.

holiness is not based upon fear, it is based upon perfect love which casts out fear.

You've had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.

and deliver me from evil." "Amen.

The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and the public interest are served, is always present in the public-spirited and the self-respecting. They look upon resigning, not as a cowardice and quitting and a personal disaster, but as the ultimate guarantee of their useful influence and of their personal dignity. - Walter Lippmann

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

Fred Bailey, a young black runaway, changed his last name to Douglass in honor of Scott's epic poem The Lady of the Lake. The hero of the epic was Lord James of Douglas, who was willing to give up his life to avert a bloody civil war between highlanders and lowlanders. Bailey's black benefactor, Nathan Johnson of New Bedford, Massachusetts, suggested adding an extra s for good measure. Bailey would now be known as Frederick Douglass.

Because fear is the basis of all inhibitions, mastery over fear means the unblocking of whole avenues of life experience that previously had been avoided.

We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion!

For a teenage girl, finding the balance between childhood fearlessness and adult vulnerability can be tougher than landing a triple axel.

I think it is a more courageous stance to abandon honestly something which has been devalued by history instead of carrying it to the end in your soul.

Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.

Jerseys were for people who were afraid to milk Holsteins and too ashamed to milk goats.

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Just a little progress is freedom from fear.—Bhagavad Gita