Quotes About Courage

You are a haenyeo! Never for one moment believe you are unworthy.

The realization that truth, forgiveness, and goodness are more important than revenge, condemnation, and cruelty gives me courage and certainty.

We're told that men are strong and brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat, and bear physical and mental agony much better than men.

Her laugh carries weariness and despair) All you can do is live. You don't have a choice. Life continues whether we want it to or not. The sun will rise despite our suffering.

All women on earth-and men too, for that matter-hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, and gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

With her bold act, I realized the true purpose of our secret writing. It was not to compose girlish notes to each other or even to introduce us to the women in our husbands' families. It was to give us a voice.

What can we do? We're only women, she says. But it's because I'm a woman, that I dare to go.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.

Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt. But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

Lia aimed, shifted and waited, watching one man peek out time and time again. She let her arrow fly anticipating his next peek at us and it pierced his eye. "Okay that's just going to make 'em mad " I said. "Three hundred and ninety-two " she said to Luca tossing her braid over her shoulder and taking aim again. "Saints in heaven " he said to me rolling his eyes "how much deeper in love can I yet fall?

They shall never believe that a young lord of Siena would march directly into their camp. And if they do? He gave me another small smile. Then my beloved lady shall have to come and rescue me. Us, Luca corrected him, slurring his words now. Have to rescue us. He adjusted Luca across his shoulders. Stay with me, Luca, he said sternly. Can't get much closer m'lord, Luca mumbled.

I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.

Lia let out a low growl and moved her arrow to the base of his fat throat. What do you think, Gabi? Would you like to see these nuptials through? Not this day, I said How about on the morrow? Marcello asked, smiling and lifting my hand to his lips. If I am your groom? Hold that eHarmony thought, Lia whispered in English. We gotta get out of here.

When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.

Fear holds on. Love lets go.

Don't make apologies for being yourself.

She understood now, how you turned away until you couldn't. Until the pain of knowing and doing nothing was greater than the fear of what might come next.

People like this guy—they count on you shrinking into the shadows, letting your shame keep you silent. That's how they get away with it again and again.

Finley felt a fresh wash of tears, a desire to run toward Eloise, to cling and to hold on. But she didn't. She had already learned the most important lesson Eloise had to teach, though it still hurt like hell: Fear holds on. Love lets go. "Yes

You have to incapacitate the women first. Because women are the fighters. They will go claw and teeth to protect their families.

Fear holds on. Love lets go. "Yes

The knowledge. Of life and all its pain, the decision to stick around and do better. That's what heroism is, you know?

worked. But she could live with it. "So