Quotes About Courage

Sometimes it takes courage—maybe all the courage you've got—to just live life.

If nobody was going to save her, she was going to save herself.

We took canoes into the heart of darkness.

to authorize that personally.

R.'s chemotherapy is going better than expected. Total loss of hair, though. We are praying together for the first time since the early part of our marriage, and I am more filled with love for her than ever. She seems so broken and helpless; but God's love will give her and both of us strength.

Mary and Joseph," he said, "turned a very embarrassing situation into one of the greatest coups in history. Clever, clever, clever!

So, after half a million, what did the chimps say?" Well, not much, when you really analyze it. That wasn't the point, for God's sake! And the scientists who supported us were afraid to object. They didn't want to attract Proxmire's attention. Cowards, every one.

They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters that beak which grips her, she becomes.

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

So whatever you think of me, don't pity me. I had a beautiful life. I was loved, admired, feted, copied, mocked, treasured, and feared. I am one hundred years old and I am no longer afraid of anything.

Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

Part of being awake is being willing to be crucified. If we think that to be awake means the whole world will agree with us, then we are in a total delusion.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Fear ye not The wrath of any man, nor hide your word Within your breast: the day of death and doom Awaits alike the freeman and the slave.