Quotes About Courage

their very ferocity, their audacity, had the opposite effect,

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." —Winston Churchill

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius at the Bridge

Douglas E. Richards

she whispered through the pain,

Winston Churchill had once famously pointed out that nothing in life was as exhilarating as being shot at without result.

Maybe it would be well understood in this far future time that resilience, determination, refusal to accept defeat, and ability to bounce back from tragedy were the hallmarks of the human condition.

you're right. You're no hero if your act of bravery only makes things worse.

True courage is being scared out of your mind, having everything to lose, and acting anyway.

Then said the brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate, "To every man upon this earth, Death cometh soon or late. And how can a man die better Than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.

Fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales tell children that monsters can be killed." —G.K. Chesterton, (English writer and philosopher)

Churchill had said, "When you're going through hell, keep going,

Fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales tell children that monsters can be killed." —G.K. Chesterton,

How can a man die better, he recited to himself, than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods.

A famous poem I had quoted in a novel came to mind: "And how can a man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods?" How, indeed?

The great martial artist Bruce Lee had once commented, "If someone comes at you with a sword, run if you can. Kung Fu doesn't always work.

Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste of death but once." —Shakespeare (Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II)

Die? That is the last thing I shall do!

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

There are two kinds of courage: the courage that holds things together and the courage that throws them away. The first is more common; it is the cement of civilization; it is Lucy's. The second is the courage of drunks and suicides and mystics.

Looking stupid is part of learning, let it happen.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.

Now, to think is to be vulnerable.