Quotes About Courage

The more I get persecuted, the more people knock on my door in support.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

It was rare to see an Asian man and white woman together when my parents fell in love. They went through years of persecution and harassment.

We will persevere, come life or death.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

Persevere. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something, because nothing would happen.

Persevering is a fight. That's what a fight is. You face something, you persevere through it, you meet it head on.

In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.

To be persistent and to have courage is important to get through difficult times and to achieve what you want to achieve.

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

For some time they talked of reformation; those who apparently desired it most favoring it only for their own profit, and the people who were to be the gainers expecting little and saying nothing. For a long time these poor people, either from distrust, incredulity, or despair, hesitated to ask for their rights: it is said that the habit of serving had taken the courage away from those old communes, which in the middle ages were so bold.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.

Oh, God," he prayed once again, by all means test us to the limit of our endurance, but please make it humanly possible to go on. Please let there be some sort of path".

I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith.

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to fear of what people may think. There is one answer to worries like these: people may think what the devil they please.

BRAVE To be brave is to behave bravely when your heart is faint. So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?