Quotes About Courage

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

There are stories you don't want to tell, and there are stories that scald your brainpan right down to the tongue at the mere thought of uttering. But you can't NOT. Even if you wait until your skull is nothing but a charred and smoking husk, the truth will still be in there, squirming.

I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice, proved to be hardened egotists. And the opposite, too - cowards doing things which needed toughness and unusual courage..... What does it all boil down to in the end? One must judge a man by what he does, and not by what he thinks he would do. Until a man faces the test, he can deceive himself endlessly.

He's like a flower doing its best on an asteroid, naked to so many cosmic terrors.

Hot Tinder: swans don't fear death Kai: cuz of their freakish swan strength Hot Tinder: they sing when it comes

Sus oídos, escucharon un último disparo; una bala viajó por su cuerpo sin permiso, atravesándolo por una pierna.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.

You really can do all things through Christ who gives you strength—and He will give you strength.

No. He'd do it now. If it broke him, then it broke him. No holding back. There's only one person in the world brave enough and forgiving enough to care for me. If I saved myself at his expense, what the hell would I be saving myself for?

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Keep hope alive!

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)

I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

I ain't got time to bleed