Quotes about Courage

I think that there are these moments of a crisis that give us the courage and encouragement to try something that actually may be better than how we were doing it before.

For resurrection faith means courage to revolt against the covenant with death (Isa. 28:15), it means hope for the victory of life which shall swallow up and conquer life-devouring death. ~ p.14

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.

And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered up to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the jiggling shelf, two broken-down heroes of the Western night.

The whole purpose of mountain-climbing to me isn't just to show off you can get to the top, it's getting out to this wild country.

Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me. Eat the night

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

In fact I realized I had no guts anyway, which I've long known. but I have joy.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.