Quotes about bravery and courage
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Act, and God will act.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
I will not be triumphed over.