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Quotes About Courage

But she keep on. You got to fight. You got to fight. But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
~ Alice Walker
It is true I've always loved the daring ones like the black young man who tried to crash all barriers at once, wanted to swim at a white beach (in Alabama) Nude.
~ Alice Walker
Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.
~ Alice Walker
I say it cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't. What that? she say. Fight. I say.
~ Alice Walker
LA RESISTENCIA ES EL SECRETO DE LA ALEGRÍA!, dice en grandes letras de molde. Hay un estruendo como si el mundo se quebrara y abriera. Vuelvo adentro. Ya no soy más. Y estoy satisfecha.
~ Alice Walker
I say it cause I'm a fool, I say. I say it cause I'm jealous of you. I say it cause you do what I can't. What that? she say. Fight. I say.
~ Alice Walker
He say to tell the truth, Shug act more manly than most men. I mean she upright, honest. Speak her mind and the devil take the hindmost, he say. You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.
~ Alice Walker
I could get no further. There was a boulder lodged in my throat. My heart surged pitifully. I knew what the boulder was; that it was a word; and that behind that word I would find my earliest emotions. Emotions that had frightened me insane.
~ Alice Walker
We will never regret having been born in this cruel time for we recognize it for what it is: the time of fullness of heart.
~ Alice Walker
I'm pore, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here! I'm here!
~ Alice Walker
What I love best bout her is what she been through, I say. When you look in her eyes you know she been where she been, seen what she seen, did what she did. And now she know.
~ Alice Walker
She say to Sofia, All your children so clean, she say, would you like to work for me, be my maid? Sofia say, Hell no. She say, What you say? Sofia say, Hell no.
~ Alice Walker
A cerca que nós montou vai te dar uma liberdade certa, mas só se ocê não tiver medo de pegar numa arma. A arma é importante. Porque não sei se amor funciona com todo mundo. Um pouco de amor, um pouco de bala, é assim que acho que ocê devia fazer.
~ Alice Walker
You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.
~ Alison Goodman
He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He thought me courageous? But I was terrified - always terrified. 'No,' I said flatly. 'I don't. He paused from stuffing the invaluable robe between two bales. 'Are you frightened now?' I nodded, shame flushing my skin. 'Is it going to stop you?' 'No.' 'That is the courage of a warrior.
~ Alison Goodman
You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.
~ Alison Goodman
Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.
~ Alison Goodman
A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me. 'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?' 'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.
~ Alison Goodman
You have far more courage than you think you do.
~ Alison Goodman
You are wilder than you know.
~ Alison McGhee
Some witches, the very brave ones, are not afraid of humans." "And some humans, the very brave ones, are not afraid to fly.
~ Alison McGhee
He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.
~ Alison Weir
God did not say, You will not be troubled, you will not be belabored, you will not be afflicted; but He said, You will not be overcome.
~ Alison Weir
And who would have dared refuse him? Whoever she was, Anne silently applauded her.
~ Alison Weir