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Quotes About Courage

In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
~ John Marsden
I guess our fate is up to us now. And we've been there before, of course. There's something quite comforting about it in a strange way. We've learnt a few things. We know we've got a few things going for us. A bit of imagination, a bit of guts sometimes, a bit of spark.
~ John Marsden
We survived, Ellie, we survived.
~ John Marsden
I refuse to think fear. I will think strong. I will think brave.
~ John Marsden
There's life in his face again. It occurs to me that this is the best thing I could have done, it's actually a great way to leave, because it's giving Gavin the message that we haven't been defeated, we are up for it, we're young, we're in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence. When we round the corner of the driveway I take his hand and we run down to the gate together.
~ John Marsden
Being brave is a choice you make. You've got to say to yourself: I'm going to think brave. I refuse to think fear or panic.
~ John Marsden
I used to think heroes were brave and strong but the last look on Robyn's fave was not brave or strong, it was scared and unsure.
~ John Marsden
In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
~ John Marsden
no enemy too smart or too strong
~ John Marsden
Do you think Lee's all right?' 'I'm praying my ass off.' At that moment came the happiest sight I'd ever seen. A thin hand appeared out of the shovel, made a V sign or a peace sign-it was hard to tell in the dimness-and disappeared again.
~ John Marsden
The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.
~ John Marsden
the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.
~ John Marsden
Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.
~ John Marsden
When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.
~ John Marsden
Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.
~ John Marsden
Therefore, go forth, companion: when you find No highway more, no track, all being blind, The way to go shall glimmer in the mind. Though you have conquered Earth and Charted Sea And planned the courses of all Stars that be, Adventure on, more wonders are in Thee. Adventure on, for from the littlest clue Has come whatever worth man ever knew; The next to lighten all men may be you . . .
~ John Masefield
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
~ John Mason Brown
Strange and terrible were the adventures they undertook with a merry heart
~ John Matthews
Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.
~ John Mayer
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you ' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
~ John Mayer
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
~ John Mayer
Men will not always die quietly.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.
~ John McCain
When a reporter asked me the next day if I had something to say to the terrorists responsible for the mass murders of the day before, I answered, "We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't.
~ John McCain