Quotes About Courage

To live dishonorably is better than to die gloriously.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Twould please me best to fight these Greeks alone.

ETEO. Having chosen them for boldness, or prudence in judgment? CRE. For both; for one without the other availeth nothing.

Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika.

They'd taught him how to milk cows,and now they expected him to tame lions.

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don't want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

she picked up the box and walked away from the job that had been her identity as well as a paycheck.

I said to the doctor, who was with us daily. 'He's got a wonderful will to live, hasn't he?' 'Would you put it like that? I should say a great fear of death.' 'Is there a difference?' 'Oh dear, yes. He doesn't derive any strength from his fear, you know. It's wearing him out.

My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.

Above all the babble of her age and ours, she makes one blunt assertion. And there alone lies Hope.

For Guy the news quickened the sickening suspicion he had tried to ignore, had succeeded in ignoring more often than not in his service in the Halberdiers; that he was engaged in a war in which courage and a just cause were quite irrelevant to the issue.

We look back already to the time of the persecution as though it were the heroic age, but have you ever thought how awfully few martyrs there were, compared with how many there ought to have been?

Let us give thanks to our father, leader, and creator for our happy lives!" "Stankovskaya, to hear your anti-Soviet talk, one can hardly believe that you were a member of a municipal committee!" "Yes, and to hear you people one can hardly believe that you're not on the prison staff. Why don't you call the guards now and report this conversation? You might get some clean underwear as a reward, and then you wouldn't stink so much.

This is not a time for hereos because nobody will let it happen

I'm sharing the fate of the women of my time who challenged men to battle

But the army - let me see - well, I discovered that physical courage depends to a great extent on the physical shape a man is in. I found that I was as brave as the next man - it used to worry me before.

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable? Like fighting and exploring and skiing in Canada?

He reached through a slit in his robe into a pouch strapped to his ample abdomen. From it he withdrew a small wineskin. Here, he said, pushing it between the bars. For strength. For courage. Adelard pulled the stopper and drank greedily. They don't feed me and give me very little water. How does it feel? Ramiro thought. How many have you treated the same to make them weak and more easily persuaded by your tortures?

I hope you live a life you're proud of. And if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button