Quotes about Courage

We pride ourselves on nothing but the courage to be trivial. For a person is simple in his striving for truth, and it is honest to admit this openly.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Real firmness is good for every thing— Strut is good for nothing.

I was scared of water, so I learnt swimming.

Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.

When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.