Quotes About Courage

She had learned never to look back, never to give fate a second chance to kick her in the teeth.

You were wonderful," Caleb said, giving Lily's bottom a little pat. "Like I said, if it weren't for me, you'd probably be dead." Caleb laughed and pulled her down onto his lap. "Probably so. You win, Lily. You were right to believe you knew how to take care of yourself, no matter what the circumstances." "Of course I was right," Lily said, unbuttoning her fancy shirtwaist, which was now dirty and speckled with blood. An

Linda Lael Miller

Linda Lael Miller

Echo:The thing about love is you always end up losing it. Cora: Oh but what you miss if you wont take the chance.

I shall have to drink poi­son if we are taken cap­tive and forced to live in a harem.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

Run! her mind screamed. Stay! her heart plead.

Dare to be a force of good in a world of bad.

And one day at a time, the group made its way to Kenya. More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

Don't be afraid, because I am with you. Don't be intimidated; I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will support you with my victorious right hand. Isaiah 41:10

Frowning, Shiloh forced herself to look up at him. Roan deserved her courage, not her cowardice. "You wanted to kiss me." "I still do.

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Why should the Nazis do anything to me? Just because I have a little lingerie shop in Nice and my name is Gustav Kohn? What interest can Hitler possibly have in me? Don't you think I ought to stay?

I am a heretic in this matter just as the philosopher Plato was and as Saint-Exupéry, the aviator, is. Plato places courage in the lowest order among the virtues.

Physical courage is a fairly common trait in human beings. The other war and this one even more so have shown that there is a far greater quantum of physical courage in the world than has usually been supposed.

In a great little book that he had the moral courage to publish during the First World War, Sigmund Freud traces physical heroism back to the fact that every man of intelligence knows that he must some day die, but that no man, in his innermost soul, ever believes in his own death.

Though physical courage is a common phenomenon in our day and age, moral courage is a thing that is correspondingly rare.

People who have manifested the greatest physical courage, in actual fact, not seldom fail when it comes to showing a little moral courage.

I cannot keep my mouth shut, even when it is dangerous to have it open. If, for example, I hear somebody, even an important and easily irascible Somebody, say that Montaigne was born around the year 1600, I simply have to open my mouth and declare: "You are mistaken, sir, Montaigne was born in the year 1533.

Call the mania intellectual integrity, call it impertinence if you will. In any event that impertinence, that intellectual integrity, is one of my most conspicuous traits and one that differentiates me from the majority of my contemporaries.

Our wives, German women or French women as they may have been, stood loyally by us and wisely, cool-headedly, did what they could to help us all.

Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.