Quotes about Courage

If we can ever get the hang of life as God intended, then it becomes an adventure to be lived instead of an unknown to be feared.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

I am the fastest woman on four wheels.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.