Quotes about Courage

He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.

Years ago, a well-known political writer, Isabel Paterson, was talking to a businessman outraged by some government action. She urged him to speak up for his principles. "I agree with you totally," he said, "but I'm not in a position right now to do it." "The only position required," she replied, "is vertical.

What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree, and to obey?

Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.

Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.

The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.

We are a people of improbable hope.

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.

As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or