Quotes About Courage

when you get to the end of your rope?" "Make a knot and hang on," Ayers says.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird, The eagle of the rock.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities … because it is the quality which guarantees all others," Churchill said.

It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.

Rollan frowned. "Conor, is this what I sounded like that day Olvan asked us to become Greencloaks? If so, I give you permission to punch me. Once. In the shoulder.

Terror is your enemy.

We'll live," Kodiak says as he pulls himself out of the water, lying on his side and wiping water from his thick hair. "We'll get cancer in our twenties, but we'll survive at least until then." "Was that a joke?" I ask, arranging myself next to him and wringing out the hem of my shirt. "Yes. It was a joke, and also it was true. It is a Dimokratia kind of joke.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

One door was shut and a gate was wide open for me. I step in the gate and keep on walking and never will I want to go back to that door.

Life is exactly as terrifying as you want it to be.

I won't take your crap, you ungrateful little shit! You think the world owes you something? The world owes you nothing! THE WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING! My heart slammed: fight or flight? Flight or fight? What kind of pathetically damaged animal decides on . . . neither? Couldn't breathe. Tried to say help but it came out a stupid squeak.

You saved yourself, gorgeous, Crisp said. You just needed a little help laughing about it.

Avoiding pain will get you nowhere. Avoiding pain multiplies pain exponentially.

Fear comes from ego; it's not a soul-level thing. And there's a lot of reasons for humans to have fear: a fear of not being good enough, a fear of not being able to do something well. Fear helps to develop ego, and ego helps to develop fear. They go in a circle. Fear usually is an absence of connection to spirit—not

Let even your deficits be your offering.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

I wasn't afraid of the dark. I was afraid of the light—the future.

But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.

You should see the other guy..." Teddy says, in this laconic tone that matches her black kimono. She takes a drag on a joint, barely glancing up from the crossword, which she always does in pen.