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Courage Quotes


"Extraordinary storms turn average seamen into extraordinary sailors."


"Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At the end of each stunt he looked back, and each time she encouraged him. Afterward he said over and over, "She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. I tore up the rule book and she wanted more. Good Christ, what a pilot she would have made!"


"She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it."


"If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?"


"We cannot achieve or goal when we are afraid, not confident, passive and indecisive."


"I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped."


"Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther."


"The world is full of haters, stand for what you believe in and believe in what you stand for."


"I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet."


"Have the courage to take off your mask and be humbled."


"We need to develop courage, and we need to develop it in small ways first..... You develop a little courage, so that if you decide, "I will not stay in rooms where women are belittled; I will not stay in company where races, no matter who they are, are belittled; I will not take it; I will not sit around and accept dehumanising other human beings: - if you decide to do that in small ways, and you continue to do it - finally you realize you've got so much courage. Imagine it - you've got so much courage that people want to be around you. They get a feeling that they will be protected in your company."


"It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence."


"When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons."


"Transcend your doubts. Transcend your fears. Transcend your weaknesses. Transcend your limits."


"With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure."


"Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it."


"Anything you want is just beyond your fear."


"Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."


"In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!"


"Practice bravery every day and the self-worth will come."


"The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!"


"We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope."


"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."


"Courage cannot be unveiled without reality."


"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."


"A step towards what you fear is a mile towards mastering it."


"We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear."
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