Quotes About Courage

It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.

What was humility unless one possessed the courage to admit error, ignorance and futility, the strength to go back and begin again?

She taught me,' said Ta-thea, 'that if you do not have couragem all other virtues may be lost, because you cannot keep even love if you are not prepared to fight for it, to endure the hurt it brings, and hold on, no matter the cost.

There were parts of Monk she admired greatly: his courage; his strength of will; his intelligence; his loyalty to his beliefs; his passion for justice; his ability to face almost any kind of truth, no matter how dreadful; and the fact that he was never, ever, a hypocrite.

Fear does different things to people. Some run away. Some go forward to meet it before it's there.

What a waste of the essence of a man that he should never give enough of himself to any cause, that he should always hear that passive, cowardly voice uppermost which counts the cost and puts caution first. One would grow old and die with the power of one's soul untasted.

do not walk slowly simply for company—ever.

He had come to believe that courage depended on knowing that there was somebody who believed in you.

La experiencia daba profundidad, compasión, una valoración más nítida de las cosas buenas. El tiempo ponía a prueba el coraje y reblandecía el corazón. ¿Acaso

the honest friendship where there was no barrier between men and women, where speech was not forever dictated by social ritual rather than true thoughts and feelings, where people worked side by side for a desperate common cause and only courage and skill mattered.

There are many kinds of misery, and many kinds of fortitude, and you should not allow your awareness of one to build to the value of another.

She had never been beautiful- she had known that from the start- but she would like to have been loved, above all things. She would have to settle for being liked, perhaps for being trusted, respected. Best of all would have been to have had the courage to stand up for herself and fight for what she believed in.

But that horror had brought out the strength in her, as it had in so many other women.

All the fear in the world is not going to change anything, only rob me of what little I have.

I really do not mind walking two paces behind a man, you know—if only I can find one who can walk two paces faster than I! It is being tied at the knees by convention I hate—and having to pretend I am lame to suit someone else's vanity.

Have you ever seen a battlefield?" Monk asked him. "I have, once. I've never known such horror in my life, but Hester knew what to do. Forget your preconceptions, Rathbone; this will be reality.

Self-pity does not become you, nor does it serve any purpose

She has a kind of courage I find myself admiring more with each day. She is determined to be happy, to see what is good and to make the best of what is not.

But he was too proud and too ambitious to be a coward. He had grasped what he wanted without flinching.

Never allow your dreams to be limited. You should aim for the stars. Live and die with your arms outstretched and your eyes seeking the next goal.

She was a remarkable woman and her courage must be immense to have defied her family and traveled virtually alone

humiliation of the past behind her, and try again?

Nothing worth having was gained without courage.

She despised cowardice, and yet here she was on the brink of it herself.