Quotes About Courage

Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly.

Expect the unexpected, that was the S.T.A.R.S. motto—although

didn't exist. Maybe, like her, Barry was scared, and sick of feeling like death could come at any time. Maybe

People who never cried were the weakest of all.

Over time, she'd come to believe that the only true emotional infirmity was denial; once a thing was accepted, it could be met without fear. She wished she could tell him that it was no weakness

You can try and maybe fail, or not try and always fail

Who dares, wins," he muttered to himself. "Or gets royally banged about if things go south.

Be as you wish to seem, an ancient had said. It was good advice. Because acting brave and being so are very much the same thing.

May you leave without returning and fall without rising, addressed to the lovely darlin? man himself. The which is perhaps a little too close to a curse for comfort, but sometimes things need to be said.?

They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In

Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, 'Don't risk it.' Because it's only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man; And through such waning span Of life and thought as still has to be trod, Prepare to meet thy God. And while the storm of that bewilderment Is for a season spent, And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall, Use well the interval.

There is no bravery without fear.

Oh sometimes it does, Carter

Finding Nemo

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, it was an accident, but when she stepped through the looking glass, it was of her own free will, and a braver deed by far.

I'll tell you a secret about fear: it's an absolutist. With fear, it's all or nothing. Either, like any bullying tyrant, it rules your life with stupid blinding omnipotence, or else you overthrow it, and its power vanishes in a puff of smoke. And another secret: the revolution against fear, the engendering of that tawdry despot's fall, has more or less nothing to do with 'courage'. It is driven by something much more straightforward: the simple need to get on with your life.

Then a strange moment came, a moment of the kind that determines the fate of nations, because when a crowd loses its fear of an army the world changes.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it. Outside The Whale ( Granta , 1984)