Quotes About Courage

I was willing to be rejected...You have to be willing to be rejected. It was a trait that let him persist until he got what he wanted and avoid whatever he didn't want.

I would have gone through with it even if they told me there was a fifty percent chance of death.

was willing to do what everyone else was extremely reluctant to do: to judge (or, as he prefers to say, to "assess") a fellow doctor.

She just had to hang in there, she told herself

I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.

asked Thomas what his special technique for sales was as a kid. He said he didn't have any. It was simply that "I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.

The nausea and the vomiting persisted, but she would not be defeated by them.

Above all, it was clear that he wanted to live. He would take any risk—even death—to live.

En la vejez y la enfermedad se requieren dos tipos de valor. El primero es el valor para afrontar la realidad de la mortalidad –el valor de querer saber la verdad de lo que cabe temer y lo que cabe esperar–

that. He had no regrets about the operation. It had given him his life back, he said.

Yet doctors remained undeterred.

accepted stoically, without fear or self-pity or hope for anything

and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through all of those already, in silence, except death. And I remind myself all the time now, that if I were to have been born mute, and had maintained an oath of silence my whole life for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die.

If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

Dark-bright fire lit eyes

may I never lose that terror that keeps me brave