Quotes About Courage

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

I'm so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don't you think?

He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and not ever. Doing that's about the most dangerous thing a person can do, I think, because a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else, even dying.

The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you can't finish. You're afraid to go down to where the stones stand, but not because you're afraid of what may come once you enter the circle. You're afraid of what may not come. You're not afraid of the great world, Eddie, but of the small one inside yourself.

no knowledge obtained without risk

But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not cope.

When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

They'll float, it growled, they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too-

I am afraid, but I have been afraid before. All he can take from me is what I would have to give up someday anyhow—my life. I will not let him break me down. I will not let him make me less than I am, if I can possibly help it.

Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the back of your mind and put it up there on the screen.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

Roland grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet. "You came!" Jake shouted. "You really came!" "I came, yes. By the grace of the gods and the courage of my friends, I came.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. I'm not editorializing, just trying to give you the facts as I see them.

The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. It isn't man or God. It's something...in the brain.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.

Stand and be true

Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.

Death, but not for you, gunslinger.

Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.