Quotes About Courage

Like that timber wolf on the mountain he had a kind of animal courage. He went his own way with unconcern for consequences that sometimes stunned people, and stuns me now to hear about it. He did not often swerve to right or to left. I've discovered that. But this courage didn't arise from any idealistic idea of self-sacrifice, only from the intensity of his pursuit, and there was nothing noble about it.

And if you can understand the feeling that comes from that, then you can understand real fear—the fear that comes from knowing there is nowhere you can possibly run.

We don't passively forget that something is scary. We actively learn that it isn't anymore.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' Failing better is something every stroke sufferer knows about.

Bears were so abundant that Boone killed 155 in one season, and he killed one monster bear that weighed between five hundred and six hundred pounds.

A person never finds himself a total coward, because if something frightens him he runs just far enough away to consider himself a hero again!

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

He thought with all these men dead fighting war, it must be that war was winning. ~ 'Coal Black Horse

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

Maybe mountaineering shouldn't be considered heroic at all, since the whole effort is 'useless' and in no way to be compared with sitting down at the wrong lunch counter in the early-sixties South, or going into battle. Nevertheless, situations arise in the useless enterprise of mountaineering that present people with choices, that make emotional and physical demands that few can meet.

El verdadero sanador, el verdadero sabio, es el que permanece sabio entre aquellos que todavía no han despertado. Ten valor, y permanece en pie.

The best way to treat your fears is to kiss them on the nose, and they disappear.

The shaming words were solid, immovable events in my life. What do you do with the solid and immovable? You build on it.

The man who can fight to heaven's own height is the man who can fight when he's losing.

Today you had a very important lesson on taking punches. A lot of people will tell you that the first thing you have to learn is how to take a punch. But I believe the first thing you should know is that you can take one and survive. A punch won't kill you. Conquering your fear is the first step to becoming a powerful fighter.

The Nazis had broken our windows and torn apart our furniture, but they had not destroyed our selves.

I can!" Marvin said. "And by the Christo malherido, I'm going to!

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

People who avoid failure also avoid success.

If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it.

Many people will not head down the street until all the lights are green. That is why they don't go anywhere.

Often in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they're more afraid of losing.