Quotes About Courage

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Submission comes from a position of weakness, acceptance from a position of strength.

Alexander (grinning): When Darius was scorching the earth, devastating villages and spoiling provisions, it drove me round the bend, but now indeed what have I to fear, when he gives me a battle to contend?

Alexander (at the trial of Philotas): How much happier to have fallen in the fighting, felled by a foe, rather than die by a countryman's blow! Now, preserved from the only perils that I feared, I am beset by threats that should never have appeared.

B)ut really, it doesn't matter how big the army is—we just have to deal with the enemies at the very front...We don't have to defeat a whole army all at once. If we fight smart and we don't panic, we'll be good.

Because books do that—they make us lose some ignorance, and lose some fear. And losing fear might mean losing some anger, too.

If you're going through hell, keep going [as stolen from Winston S. Churchill]

The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask.

I'm rediscovering my backbone, which is a good start.

You're scared and I understand that. I know it's difficult because you want to imagine the ending but you can't even imagine the beginning. But everything will be ok. It just takes time.

Before dismissing such men as 'mediocre, timid, and weak,' one might ask oneself how many of us would welcome such a war, especially without the knowledge of hindsight?

Cutting to the heart of the matter, Lincoln made the irrefutable point: "People of any color seldom run, unless there be something to run from." Two SLAVERY AND THE FOUNDERS 1.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

No tragedy is greater than that of a single person who is afraid to do the right thing

Andrew Gross

To thrive in an ever-globalizing world, you must do what others do not do and go where others will not go.

The point lay not in this or that label, but in the fact that this generation were going to think for themselves, take a wider view of the world than their parents had done, and not be frightened by bogey words.

The point is that we are not doomed because we are homosexual, my dear, we are doomed only if we live in despair because of it, as we did on the beaches and the streets of Suck City.

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

I was at the edge of my experience, and the only way I was going to expend my frontier was to act.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

I'm doing some more dangerous stuff on a weekly basis than professional stunt men are doing.

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.