Quotes about Courage
Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
— Walter Anderson
Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.
— Walter Brueggemann
Humanness depends on being faithfully heard. And being faithfully heard depends on risky speech of self-disclosure uttered in freedom before a faithful listener.
— Walter Brueggemann
This story begins wherever there is enough courage and freedom and daring and sensibility to acknowledge that the pain of ruthless exploitation is not normal and cannot be borne.
— Walter Brueggemann
It is my hope that the Christian community in the United States will cease to appeal to the Bible as a direct support for the state of Israel and will have the courage to deal with the political realities without being cowed by accusations of anti-Semitism.
— Walter Brueggemann
3. There is a text in its boldness. There is a congregation, perhaps reduced and diminished by fatigue. Third, there is this specific occasion for speech.
— Walter Brueggemann
She's her mother's daughter - full of courage, determination, and strength she doesn't even know she has.
— Wanda Brunstetter
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
— Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
— Washington Irving
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
— Washington Irving
You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
— Wayne Gretzky
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
— Dante Alighieri