Quotes about Courage

but whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us . . . [But] as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.

Good words, I replied. But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear

I shall not stand to be laughed at. I shall not bear it!

I wish I were out of doors - I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries,not maddening under them!

Together they would brave satan and all his legions.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

What would Heracles have been if he had said, How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men? What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.

Apropos of which, Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it — or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

He didn't care; it was not his skin he wanted to save, but the man of honour and integrity. These things are not open to compromise or negotiation.