Quotes About Courage

Humour can always be found in a place where there's fearlessness.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

Falling down doesn't matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.

Well, you're going to be dead in a hundred years anyway, so live dangerously.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

My mother got the courage to speak to hundreds of people about her story. I knew if she could do it I could do it, too.

As cheesy as it might sound, I've got to give credit to movies like 'The Hunger Games' and 'Divergent' because they are stories written about young heroines. It's not just about super guys any more.

'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

If I'm stone-cold crazy because I have a hard time going to sleep at night because we have kids that go to bed hungry, then I'll be stone-cold crazy, and I'm OK with that.

And I have known meditators filled with doubt and self-condemnation when the practice has been stormy. Practicing with our best effort during periods of crisis and personal struggle may not bring about spiritual highs. It may, however, bring something more important: a strengthening of the inner qualities that sustain a spiritual life for the long term: mindfulness, persistence, courage, compassion, humility, renunciation, discipline, concentration, faith*, acceptance, and kindness.

There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

You are like Odysseus, who could go out onto the great sea, lose all his goods and his friends, come to the boundaries of death, and return still himself.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality.

Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness. But Richard didn't bore me. Maybe because his grin was a little crooked. Or because he made his living dealing in ugly things.

Don't be a scared, dickless boy all your life, letting people push you around, letting people bring up the fear in you.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit.

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Anything could happen.

Diane didn't worry, that was for less hearty women.

All the women here walked as if they were pushing against a monstrous headwind.

La mayoría de las cosas buenas y hermosas son llevadas a cabo por mujeres menospreciadas por la mayoría.