Quotes About Courage

Lucien?" "Yes, Alice?" Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. "I think it's real.

Crying is part of the adventure

I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.

Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me

Gail Carson Levine

i wasnt frightened of it. The gray death wasn't a monster or a spider i could see and shiver over. It was invisible. If I caught it would be somewhere within me and while the outside world was full of danger I knew my interior I was certain I could oust an intruder there.

She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.

I've grown to fond of the stars to be fearful of the night.

E pur si muove. (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun .)

Y sin embargo, se mueve! (Eppur si muove)

If something terrible happens to me, it's not my job to spare you from my pain.

To overcome the emotional hardships of being ridiculed for being different, she turned difference into specialness and transformed her disability into a defining quality of her identity.

Only narcissists and Heroes stood unwavering against the odds. Most rational people got a clue and found their bearings.

I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.

Very little is known about Hugh Glass as a real guy that existed 200 years ago, except that he was attacked by a bear, betrayed and left for dead, and has to survive in the winter. I said, 'What really drives a human to survive those conditions?'

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

The thought of being the first openly gay male ever to compete in the Winter Olympics - I totally embrace that.

Swedish winters are not for the faint of heart.

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

When you wipe out, all you can do is let the wave take you and stay calm until you can come up for air.

If you operate in fear, it can just wipe you out.

The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life.

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.

I walked on a high wire at Battersea power station for Comic Relief in 2011. It was the scariest but the most exciting moment. I hated being on it but as soon as I stepped off I was desperate to get back on and do it again!