Quotes About Courage

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Sudah bosan takut. Dan sudah bosan putus asa

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the most delightful of poets says "What cannot Friendship guided by sweet Love?

They did not understand that war, which trained courage and founded the cities of barbarous and ignorant men, brings to victor himself but ruin and misery, and is nothing but a horrible and stupid crime when nations are united together by common bonds of art, science, and trade.

I respect Everest very much.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.

Filipino people, the people of Tacloban, and Samar, and Cebu, and all these places where so many have died, they are strong not just to have survived this storm, but they are strong to have survived the aftermath of this storm. They have survived for a week now, often with very little food, with very little water, with very little medical attention. Can you imagine the strength it takes to be living in a shack, to be living, sleeping on the streets next to the body of your dead children?

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Dare to be yourself

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage. (One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.)

Le secret du bonheur, écrit-il, est avant tout dans le courage, dans la force où consiste la vertu. L'énergie est la vie de l'âme comme le principal essor de la raison. L'homme fort est bon. Le faible seul est méchant. Le père dit à son fils : « Sois homme, mais sois-le vraiment. »

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.