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Quotes About Courage

Fait ce qui te fait peur
~ E. Lockhart
To be strong, to keep calm and to trust - they were still the one hope.
~ E. M Forster
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
~ E. M. Cioran
The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, "Pathos, piety, courage—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value." If one had spoken vileness in that place, or quoted lofty poetry, the [echo's] comment would have been the same—"Ou-boum."
~ E. M. Forster
I'm not ashamed. I don't apologize. But it has frightened you, and you may not have noticed that I love you.
~ E. M. Forster
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
~ E. V. Lucas
Money lost -- little lost. Honour lost -- much lost. Pluck lost -- all lost.
~ E. W. Hornung
But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!" "Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
Fie on it! Cowardice is worse than death!
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
~ Burn fear, not pages.
There was a girl. Her name was Angie. She was fat.
~ E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
You don't try to be anyone else and that is a very hard thing in this world. It may seem unimportant right now when fitting in would be so much easier. But later you'll see. Being who you are is everything.
~ E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Fat Angie may not have had a body worth promoting according to any number of fashion magazines on the market, but it was a healthier, stronger, and, quite honestly, ready-to-kick-ass-and-take-names body. With
~ E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~ E.E. Cummings
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
~ E.E. Cummings
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
~ E.E. Cummings
There are no winners in battle. Just survivors.
~ E.E. Knight
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?
~ E.M. Cioran
At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.
~ E.M. Forster
It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.
~ E.M. Forster
He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec's turn to bring out the hero in him
~ E.M. Forster
Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.
~ E.M. Forster