Quotes About Courage

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

During war times not only one should himself take part in it but also encourage the courageous to do so by creating awareness, zeal and enthusiasm for the war in the society.

What I have done is a duty that any Nicaraguan who truly loves his country should have done a long time ago.

And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced—mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes—would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?

The very idea of wagon travel across the plains might have been indefinitely delayed had it not been for Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, a dreamy but persistent evangelist from the Finger Lakes of New York, who in 1836 became the first white woman to cross the Rockies. Narcissa Whitman is largely forgotten today, but her impact on American history was enormous, and for a time she was one of the most famous women in antebellum America.

It was July 4, 1836. The first white women had crossed the Rockies on Independence Day.

Don't think. Just do it.

Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown.

My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.

Renee to show to the girls at the factory. When everything

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budge no choice but to grant her space crown her with sky for she is one of the many and she is each of us

Against Self-Pity It gets you nowhere but deeper into your own shit--pure misery a luxury one never learns to enjoy.

From my own experience, I realized that there are many other reasons we procrastinate, starting with fear.

She is learning toward me, animatedly asking questions, and he is a half step back. It happens three more times that night and many times over the next years. Usually it's the women who identify with me and ask the questions. It isn't the details of my travels that intrigue them; it's the fact that I am living a rich, fulfilling life. And I'm doing it without a man. For many women, my story awakens buried dreams or stimulates new ones.

Too afraid of dying to really live.

Ellie understood the need to run and start over. She'd felt that way a few weeks ago herself. But her ties to Crooked Creek ran deep, and she'd finally decided she couldn't run far enough to escape her past. She had to stay and face it

Nella vita non bisogna mai rassegnarsi, arrendersi alla mediocrità, bensì uscire da quella "zona grigia" in cui tutto è abitudine e rassegnazione passiva, bisogna coltivare il coraggio di ribellarsi

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

Le donne che hanno cambiato il mondo non hanno mai sentito il bisogno di mostrare nulla se non la loro intelligenza

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.