Quotes About Courage

Most of us have been struck dumb by the scariest communication task of all—asking for what we want.

We have all been afraid to ask, we have all failed to ask, we have all been irked with our lovers when they didn't read our minds and offer us the reassurance we crave, and we have all thought, "I shouldn't have to ask." Let's remember to honor the courage it takes to ask for support, to share vulnerable feelings. Let's pat ourselves on the back when we do the things that scare us, and then let's do them some more.

Faith is required to get a vision for things that we don't see yet in our life.

Fear is one of the biggest things that will stop you from moving forward and doing the things that will get you to your destiny.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.

Are you sure this is a good idea?' I ask. 'No,' says Amber. 'Let's do it.

I'm not scared any more,' said Midge. 'Thank you, Kevin. Sometimes you can be very kind.' 'Yes,' said Kevin. 'And if you tell that to any of the other trolls I will pull off your nose and feed it to a bear.

When there is darkness there is no point to be down. It is your chance to shine!

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

People come up to you and say, "Oh man, that's the scariest thing in the world what you do, talk in front of people." It's not scary to me. Your job is scary to me, fucking selling shoes in the mall for 30 years only to have the place go out of business.

Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?

They'd been afloat now without food, water, shelter, or sleep for over forty hours. Of the 1,196 crew13 members who'd set sail from Guam three days earlier, probably no more than 600 were still alive. In the previous twenty-four hours alone, at least 200 had likely slipped beneath the waves or been victims of shark attack. Since the sinking, each boy had been floating through the hours asking himself the same hard question: Will I live, or do I quit?

We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.

There will come a day," Jared mused, "when people will miss him greatly. He goes for the big thing and he gets it done. Nobody can keep up with the spirit in which he leads.

I need to believe in her stories as much as she does. That Lothar Berfelde navigated a path between the two most repressive regimes the Western World has ever known - the Nazis and the Communists - in a pair of heels.

I swallowed hard. Was I ready for the Wager of Love? It was still a gamble and there would be no guarantee of happiness, but I would not remain one of the Cowards of Love scattered around me. I knew that one could not be the Empire's greatest lover without truly knowing how to love. And yet I no longer even aspired to this hollow title. I wanted only what every common husband can achieve--to be the greatest lover of my very own wife.

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

To every man upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods." —Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius at the Bridge

A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality." —Winston Churchill

Horatius at the Bridge?

Would a coward or a thief remain a coward or a thief, even if his memory slate was wiped clean? Or could he somehow become courageous and noble? Could not knowing you had a history of cowardice allow you to suddenly become brave? Were bravery and altruism learned qualities or innate ones?

Douglas E. Richards