Quotes About Courage

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

The most important things are the hardest things to say

the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can't.

How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

For Gilead and the Calla! he roared. Now, gunslingers! Now, you Sisters of Oriza! Now, now! Kill them! No Quarter! Kill them all!

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God's help you will stand.

In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.

I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters.

After that we're going to be heroes. Not because we want to, but because there are no other options.

That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

I want to go to war, Eddie Dean said calmly. You don't know what you're talking about, Roland said, but you're going to find out. Eddie nodded. They went to their war.

Here is something I learned in Empis: good people shine brighter in dark times.

El monstruo nunca muere.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head, they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things.

Strap it on whenever it's possible.

There is really nothing so comforting to the beaten of spirit or the broken of skull than a good strong dose of 'Thy will be done.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Make do.

Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody

Let it eat her; let it beat her. It could do both. But she would not beat herself.

but shame is like laughter. And inspiration. It doesn't knock.

Pon distancia y trata de mantener la sonrisa. Sintoniza un rock and roll en la radio y ve hacia toda la vida que existe con todo el valor que puedas reunir y toda la fe que logres invocar. Sé leal, sé valiente, aguanta. El resto es oscuridad.

person did what a person could, whether it was setting up gravestones or trying to convince twenty-first-century men and women that there were monsters in the world, and their greatest advantage was the unwillingness of rational people to believe.