Courage Quotes

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved.

Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.

You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination.

The Home Guard overtopped the million mark, and when rifles were lacking grasped lustily the shotgun, the sporting rifle, the private pistol, or, when there was no firearm, the pike and the club. No Fifth Column existed in Britain, though a few spies were carefully rounded up and examined. What few Communists there were lay low. Everyone else gave all they had to give.

To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition. Even when they comin, gunnin I stand position.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do ... I think in the end, being natural, and being ... actually genuine is what wins.

You know nothing can stop me but loss of breath, and I'm still breathing so it's still on.

Do everything you can to make it around the system, over the system, or out the system.

Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.