Quotes About Courage

there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Not that she didn't about fighting losing battles.

The watercolor sky—silver fading to blue fading to black, the high slice of moon and glimmering stars—reminded her that she'd always wanted to paint but didn't know how, was in some ways afraid of the idea of putting brush to canvas, of making a mark that couldn't be erased. The idea that she might create something that was laughable, pitiable, or silly had stopped her from ever taking a class or even buying paints. Foolish. It was foolish.

Lisi Harrison

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

Lisi Harrison

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.

Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

Question everything. Attempt the impossible. Be brave.

The worst part was the fear - looking down at the rushing water that seemed miles away. But once you were on that branch, there was no going back.

By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking...

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.

Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.

Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

When prophecies give no help, men must find it themselves.

There are heroes and heroes. I don't deny he's acted bravely on occasion. He's fought beside Lord Gwydion and been proud of himself as a chick wearing eagle's feathers. But that's only one kind of bravery. Has the darling robin ever scratched for his own worms? That's bravery of another sort. And between the two, dear Orwen, he might find the latter shows the greater courage.