Quotes about Courage

But as she had felt she was beyond fear, so now she was beyond screaming.

I am grateful, too, to Lewis for having the courage to yell, to doubt, to kick at God with angry violence. This is part of a healthy grief not often encouraged. It is helpful indeed that C.S. Lewis, who has been such a successful apologist for Christianity, should have the courage to admit doubt about what he has so superbly proclaimed. It gives us permission to admit our own doubts, our own angers and anguishes, and to know that they are part of the soul's growth.

Don't be afraid to be afraid.

Euripides. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

In this fateful hour, it was herself she placed between us and the powers of darkness.

Nothing is hopeless. We must hope for everything.

In moments of decision, we are to try to make what seems to be the most loving, the most creative decision. We are not to play safe, to draw back out of fear. Love may well lead us into danger. It may lead us to die for our friend. In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold on to that most difficult one of all, love.

Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself.

As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set... then the flavor is gone.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]