Quotes About Courage

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide--not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often--and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

I don't want to sound like Pollyanna, she began, but you haven't grasped me yet. My courage is faith- faith in the eternal resilience of me- that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide- not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often- and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it--and not get caught.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a man killing himself than taking a risk for you, why that's the way I want to die.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

Think of all the fine men we should lose is suicide were not so cowardly

The war spirit's getting into me again. I have a hundred years of Ohio love behind me and I'm going to bomb out this trench.

I thought you weren't afraid. I never am --but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not.

There's no 'Safety First' in Art.

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide—not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often—and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

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.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

her disposition is not all it should be; she wants what she wants when she wants it and she is prone to make every one around her pretty miserable when she doesn't get it—but in the true sense she is not spoiled. Her fresh enthusiasm, her will to grow and learn, her endless faith in the inexhaustibility of romance, her courage and fundamental honesty—these things are not spoiled.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

Smart men play close to the line because they have to--some of them can't stand it, so they quit.