Quotes about Courage

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.

The Mayor about the fable of the Prodigal Son: 'But he came home.' 'Yes, his courage failed him. He felt very alone on that pig farm. There was no branch of the Party to which he could look for help. Das Kapital had not yet been written, so he was unable to situate himself in the class struggle. Is it any wonder that he wavered for a time, poor boy?

I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But he knew hte falsity of the reasoning; he knew how they taught also that there was nothing to fear in death, and how fearfully they avoided the idea of it.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office was the leader of the country [1941]. One of Rowe's last memories was of hearing him hissed by ex-servicemen from the public gallery of a law court because he had told an abrupt unpalatable truth about an old campaign. Now he had taught the country to love his unpalatable truths.

After my accident, I never worried about how I looked.

All worry is fear-based.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.