Quotes About Courage

Never complain, even if you are in great pain.

sitting behind the controls of his Hurricane, taking on a squadron of deadly Messerschmitts, when

Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis

David Walliams

the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny

In heart-stoppingly* eye-wateringly* bum-clenchingly* measure.

David Walliams

Ha! Ha!" "Don't let the bullies get you down! It's what's in here that counts," said Sid, clutching his heart. "You are a smashing boy – don't ever forget that!

Nec quererer, si etiam in tormentis'. Translate that from the Latin, boy!

a bad bitch couldn't be judged by the amount of friends and followers she had; but by the level and the magnitude of her enemies.

This was a man's man. One who could lead, control, rebel and oppose. He was the type of man that an African woman needed in situations like the ones they were in. He didn't care what the consequences were, if he felt it; he just did it. Just made it happen without further regards to the side effects.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir—" Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely "—and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff.

All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran — or Grayson — Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was .

David Wellington

He hasn't run away from home. You can't run away from what you don't have.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.

In the silence that follows a great line you can feel Lazarus deep inside even the laziest, most deathly afraid part of you, lift up his hands and walk toward the light.

Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts; most especially, the ability, despite our grief and losses, to courageously inhabit the past the present and the future all at once.

We might at first label the body's simple need to focus inward depression. But as we practice going inward, we come to realize that much of it is not depression in the least; it is a cry for something else, often the physical body's simple need for rest, for contemplation, and for a kind of forgotten courage, one difficult to hear, demanding not a raise, but another life.

What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make enough plans

What we are actually about to become or are afraid of becoming always trumps and rules over what we think we are already.

We have patience for everything but what is most important to us. We look at the life of our own most central imaginings and see it beckon. For the most part, we have not the courage to follow it, but we do not have the courage to leave it. We turn our face for a moment and tell ourselves we will be sure to get back to it. When we look again, ten years have passed and we wonder what in God's name happened to us.