Quotes about Courage

Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum [...] But what did it mean? I said. What?, he said. Oh, it meant 'Don't let the bastards grind you down'. I guess we thought we were pretty smart back then.

I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. It got things over with. I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain...Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.