Quotes about Courage
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
— William Faulkner
She was the captain of her soul
— William Faulkner
Truth is one. It doesn't change. It covers all things which touch the heart - honor and pride and pity and justice and courage and love.
— William Faulkner
He's crossed all the oceans all around the world.
— William Faulkner
Be scared.You can't help that. But don't be afraid, Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you if you don't corner it or it don't smell that you are afraid. A bear or a deer has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.
— William Faulkner
My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?
— William Faulkner
You cannot swim for new horizons unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
— William Faulkner
We will establish a new land where man can assume that every individual man—not the mass of men but individual men—has inalienable right to individual dignity and freedom within a fabric of individual courage and honorable work and mutual responsibility.
— William Faulkner
Just like folks. Put off as long as she could having to be brave, knowing all the time that sooner or later she would have to be brave once so she could keep on calling herself a dog, and knowing beforehand what was going to happen when she done it.
— William Faulkner
Folks don't go to wars for fun. A man don't leave his maw crying just for fun.
— William Faulkner
So the last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of deciding on the fear. We've got to talk about this fear and decide there's nothing in it.
— William Golding