Quotes About Courage

One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.

Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

To me, I see scars of courage. Inflicting them gave him the strength to survive the pain that's plagued him all his life. I'm grateful to every one of them because he's still here, with me.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Why don't you light that candle ?

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.