Quotes About Courage

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

I call it improper pride to let fool's notions hinder you from doing a good action. There's no sort of work, said Caleb, with fervor, putting out his hand and moving it up and down to mark his emphasis, that could ever be done well, if you minded what fools say. You must have it inside you that your plan is right, and that plan you must follow.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

she had begun a new life in which she embraced humiliation.

Why should I not marry the man who loves me, if I love him?" said Catherine. To her the effort was something like the leap of a woman from the deck into the lifeboat. "It

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

I will not profess bravery [...] but I acknowledge a good deal of pleasure in fighting.

But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery—the sooner the better.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Most people are driven by fear or by avoidance of pain. Only a few are driven by the benefits.

In creating new paths, the "deviant" can make those paths appear safe to others and thus lead them to change their lives. Thus

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Women are such strong, powerful leaders, and a lot of the time, we play it silent.

Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

Women are truly, truly awesome.

If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.