Quotes About Courage

A lady lion-tamer put her head in a lion's mouth last week, and he bit it off. If a lion attempted to put his head in my mouth I expect I would do the same.

Keep your heart infinitesimally small, and sorrow will never spy it...

Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

To-night I am to be shot because I had once acquired an education.

What's beautiful is to refuse to let yourself stop, sit down, fall asleep, or look back.

Do it trembling if you must, but do it!

No matter how unattractive or how dangerous the road ahead may be, it is better than the road back. The road ahead may be veiled from sight—but you must teach yourself to regard the unknown as friendly. Remember that God is always on the road ahead. … cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee (Psalm 143:8).

I may win and I may lose but I will never be defeated.

You can't possibly do anything if you think you can't. But you can do impossible things sometimes if you think you can.

I don't feel at all brave,' thought Jack, 'but I suppose a person is really bravest when he does something although he is frightened. So here goes!

Adventures always come to the adventurous, there's no doubt about that!

Well – fortune favours the bold!

And if you dare to put so much as half

Cowardice is just thinking of your own miserable skin instead of somebody else's.

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I don't tell untruths. I think it's being a coward if you don't tell the truth – and I'm not a coward.

that other passage we saw, the right-hand one,' said George. 'Look, there it is.' She shone

If you face trouble in the right way something always turns up to make things better.

get up again and go on.

I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room.

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?