Quotes About Courage

He was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor.

Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe.

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity

Atalanta in Calydon

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 that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage.

you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

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.

Fine dives have been made from flimsier spring-boards

Courage—just that; courage as a rule of life, and something to cling to always.

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. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

So the men did, and they died.

Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.

Mrs. Gilbert added flavor to his adventure by being impressed with his courage in braving the harsh air.

I knew I'd be tongue-tied soon, so I tried to press my worry down by telling myself what Grandpa Leong used to tell me, that the best way to conquer fear is to act. Open the mouth and tell.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Brave girls don't cry.

Towanda the Magnanimous, Righter of Wrongs and Queen without Compare.

He had done it all, from barnstorming to crop dusting, and had even flown a Davis Waco with the Baby Ruth Flying Circus.

As the doctor said, When a fifty-eight-year-old man goes downtown dressed up in a Dale Evans cowgirl outfit, complete with a skirt with fringe, it's time...

Capital is a coward

Don't cry, Samarra whispered, Nothing ever happens to the brave.

If that was dying, I don't want to do it again.