Quotes About Courage

But I was going to say that while I was dawdling about abroad, I saw a good many talented young fellows making all sorts of sacrifices, and enduring real hardships, that they might realize their dreams. Splendid fellows, some of them, working like heroes, poor and friendless, but so full of courage, patience and ambition, that I was ashamed of myself, and longed to give them a right good lift.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. —ALBERT CAMUS

Jane's dream had ripped her heart from her chest, as if the past were a lion that could eat her alive.

Girls have to be dauntless," Mathilda said. "And twice as excellent

Fear is the gift. It's how I will stay alert and alive.

Abusers are weak. They trap women who have gigantic hearts, who want to help these poor, sad wounded birds.

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not

Sometimes you've just got to take a chance. Allow yourself to be vulnerable.

It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.

else would I be hiding

Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a 'brave girl' for not crying, a 'good girl' for not complaining, and soon I began defining myself this way, equating strength with silence.

Now I knew that joy was a kind of fearlessness, a letting go of expectations that the world should be anything other than what it was.

One time they held hands while walking along the lake. Their joined palms felt like a fuse in an outlet, as if their touch was the source of everything that mattered, as if by doing this, holding hands in public, they'd be able to make better photographs and write better stories. Make better love. The power of those few minutes of not hiding felt like it could fuel an entire country.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

But that would be terrible queer, Anne. And what would Mrs Harmon Andrews say? Ah, there's the rub, sighed Anne. There are so many things in life we cannot do because of the fear of what Mrs Harmon Andrews would say. What delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs Harmon Andrews!

Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. 'There will be other rainbows.' she said. Emily was a chaser of rainbows.

But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant.