Quotes About Courage

Broken but not broken.

Thrown into a vast open sea with no navigation charts and all the marker buoys sunk and barely visible, we have only two choices left: we may rejoice in the breath-taking vistas of new discoveries -- or we may tremble out of fear of drowning.

Um aspecto muito visível do desaparecimento das velhas garantias é a nova fragilidade dos laços humanos. A fragilidade e transitoriedade dos laços pode ser um preço inevitável do direito de os indivíduos perseguirem seus objetivos individuais, mas não pode deixar de ser, simultaneamente, um obstáculo dos mais formidáveis para perseguir eficazmente esses objetivos -- e para a coragem necessária para persegui-los.

El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre del impulso creativo y, por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final.

a matter of fact, Havel had but three weapons to use in his effort to change history: hope, courage and stubbornness – weapons which all of us possess in one measure or another. The sole difference between Václav Havel and the rest of us is that we, unlike Havel, seldom reach for those weapons; and when (if) we do, we do it with much less – weaker and shorter-lived – determination.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

All that blood and...stuff. Me, I'll take intelligent cowardice over foolhardy bravery any day

The man who fights learns to pray, you know. It's a splendid Russian proverb.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.

Viver de acordo com os princípios bíblicos hoje requer que as mulheres sejam ousadas o suficiente para permanecer firmes contra filosofias e fortalezas que buscam destruir a Palavra de Deus e sua autoridade.

There are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman

Truth is the courage to fathom the facts in order to see how they relate to the Word.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.