Quotes About Courage

Any attempt to attack, defend, or withdraw will work against you. Instead, you must restrain these reactive tendencies, find the courage to stand your ground, and then step forward in the face of this determined opposition.

No honorable man has just cause to fear a lawfully armed woman.

Courage is a demonstration of faith.

Likewise, controversy helps to bring purity by removing the cowards. The Lord listed cowards along with unbelievers, the abominable, murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars who will have their part in the lake of fire (see Revelation 21:8). Cowardice has no place in the kingdom of God, for true faith is characterized by courage.

You must do all that you do here with joy. The joy of The Lord is your strength, and you can only make it through this valley by His strength.

The Rise of Black Wolf

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

They reported how when he took over as president of Phoenix Country Club in 1949, he said if they didn't allow his friend Harry Rosenzweig to join he would blackball every name. Rosenzweig became the first Jew the club ever admitted. Left out of the tale was that another Jew wasn't allowed in for a decade.

insistent opening bark of the UPI's Helen Thomas:

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

Humble people share the credit of their success, and accept their failures with courage and character.

To resist the depths of the world's sorrow, the truth of one's heart must be honored.

My dad had a framed picture of a surfer on a giant wave in his den. The wave always looked so huge. My Papa told me that was life. This giant thing trying to get you that you had to find pleasure in riding.

If you know someone who is discouraged because his fight isn't won yet, speak to that person truthfully and forthrightly, the way a commanding officer would speak to his troops.

Like Jesus, we must make the decision that we will never alter, amend, compromise, dilute, or mitigate truth to make our listeners more comfortable or to gain a following.

To bring the Church back to where God wants it to be will require great courage on the part of God's leaders, His spokesmen. They must be willing to acknowledge the present sad condition of large portions of the Church. Then they must rise up and both publicly and privately refute every form of deception with a steadfast stance on God's truth — regardless of the consequences to them personally.

Rather than fear or run looking for a place to hide, we must press into Christ and clothe ourselves with the power of the Holy Spirit so we can make a mark for eternity in as many lives as possible before this current age ends. The opportunity before us is remarkable and unprecedented.

But the chance of him taking a step toward God was well worth the risk of me feeling rejected. Because it's not about me. It's about God.

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.