Quotes about Courage

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.

For resurrection faith means courage to revolt against the covenant with death (Isa. 28:15), it means hope for the victory of life which shall swallow up and conquer life-devouring death. ~ p.14

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.

And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered up to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the jiggling shelf, two broken-down heroes of the Western night.