Quotes About Courage

That turtle is fearless. She has to be. She carries the Earth on her back.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

The strongest passion is fear.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

Nu vorbea decât de dragoste, agitând bombe. Aprindea ruguri, dar nu voia s? vad? decât lumina lor.

He lifted himself from a wheelchair to lift the nation from its knees.

I cannot do this," she remembered thinking to herself, but she went anyway. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do," she wrote later, supplying her own emphasis.

When hit in the stomach by a line drive, he wrote his parents that it was "to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present.

Franklin crashed flat on the marble, his crutches clattering down beside him. Onlookers rushed in, then drew back, uncertain what to do. With an enormous effort Roosevelt wrestled himself into a sitting position. He laughed reassuringly. "There's nothing to worry about," he told anxious spectators. "We'll get out of this all right. Give me a hand there.

Iraq, and suggested the soldiers

must do the thing you think you cannot do,

I think I was attracted to Philippians 1:20 because the apostle Paul wasn't afraid of ending poorly. He was roughly sixty years old when he wrote, "For I fully expect and hope that I will never be ashamed, but that I will continue to be bold for Christ, as I have been in the past. And I trust that my life will bring honor to Christ, whether I live or die" (NLT).

When this book [So Far From The Bamboo Grove] was accepted for publication, a writer friend told Yoko that now she would be competing with other writers. Yoko said, No, she would not compete with anyone for anything. "I competed with life and death when young," she said. "And I won." ... Here is the story of her victory.

For I do not love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always handsome and sometimes oppressed but stand up and rebel

She was in Spain, I believe. Kids were chasing her and screaming 'Maricona' and throwing stones at her.

This lady is strong medicine, for external use only.

n'a plus la certitude qu'on va gagner, dans cette lutte contre la méchanceté des collines.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

It is bad to love life if one loves it like a coward.

That road, as it turned out, would be even lonelier than she had reason to fear.

I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in another and truly believed that anything was possible.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.