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Quotes About Courage

It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong tell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone in the place where I make no mistakes in the place where I have what it takes
~ Elliott Smith
In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
~ Ellis Peters
They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
~ Ellis Peters
A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
~ Ellis Peters
You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.
~ Ellyn Bache
Everybody's brave when they don't have any choice
~ Ellyn Bache
When you're down, remember your triumphs. That's what I need to tell the girls. Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.
~ Ellyn Bache
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~ Elmer Davis
The first and great commandment is Don't let them scare you.
~ Elmer Davis
This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~ Elmer Davis
A man does what he feels is right, no matter what it costs him.
~ Elmer Kelton
Gabriel actually laughed. "Luckily for Philippa, she's beautiful enought that another man will come along who has the balls to accept what she's offering.
~ Eloisa James
From here she could see miles of dark emerald forest with just a few birds erupting from its depths like flying fish skimming an ocean ... 'Annabel!' Ewan called. She looked down. He was standing in water, after all. So without a moment's trepidation, she launched herself from the downed carriage, coming home to his arms with all the security and the pleasure of child leaping from the second stair.
~ Eloisa James
He'd never seen a lady's hair down in a public place, and here was Miss Jerningham - Gabby - blithely shaking her curls, as if the crowd of stevedores, sailors, and boatmen around her were naught. 'A lady does not groom herself in public!' 'I'm afraid I'm used to being on display,' she said brightly. 'In the village, my father and I were the only Europeans. My hair was considered to be a good-luck charm-
~ Eloisa James
For a moment, she remembered the pain of being called ugly, and then it melted away like soap washing down a drain. She had told herself a hundred times that she could be humiliated only if she allowed it: now she needed to believe it.
~ Eloisa James
I'm not afraid because I love you and I will always love you. always. Your love stands between me and fear.
~ Eloisa James
I don't know why you're crying, Count. I lost closer friends than you when I was deloused!
~ Eloisa James
If you open this one, I want you to know that my respect for you has only deepened after learning of his seduction. You were taken advantage of, yet did not allow him to steal you, the essential you, the joyful you. You did not allow his evil intentions to define you.
~ Eloisa James
Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage.
~ Eloise Jarvis McGraw
A beautiful, fresh, white paper—it frightens, ja ? 'I am pure and virgin, I am perfect already,' it says. 'Who dares to mar this so-perfect white?' Only the artist says, 'I dare. You exist only to receive my thought, my image, my stroke of blue!
~ Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Always there was change, there was no preventing it and no undoing it, either—and all arrangements were temporary. Everything changed except one's courage. But as long as that remained, a person—or even a city—could look ahead.
~ Eloise Jarvis McGraw
I saw one in pain, in pain enough for ten strong women but she didn't say a word about that pain, she went deep under the water and came back and she wasn't alone
~ Eloise Klein Healy
When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.
~ Eloise Ristad
laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can
~ Elsa Maxwell