Quotes About Courage

I've been victimized but that doesn't mean I have to be a victim.

Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.

Pick on someone your own size!" I shot back, which was probably stupid because there weren't any sumo wrestlers in our neighborhood.

We're not criminals. We're regular kids, like everybody else. Still, you probably don't want to mess with us . . . just to be on the safe side.

We are more than merely Lucian, Janus, Ekaterina, Tomas, and Madrigal. We are all Cahills, and we are under attack.

Risks aren't risks when the consequences are no worse than your regular life.

Which was still pretty ill.

Good things happen when you get out of your comfort zone and try stuff.

Watching her as the skid speeds up, blurring the world around us, it dawns on me that this girl has zero fear.

I've actually started enjoying the Bath in a what-doesn't-kill-you-makes-you-stronger sort of way.

when the inner garden is under cultivation and God's Spirit is present, harvests are regular events. The fruits? Things like courage, hope, love, endurance, joy, and lots of peace.

Through the years I came to realize that some of the most important insights I gained about myself came not from my friends but from my critics who, while playing rough, nevertheless alerted me to blind spots and inadequacies no one else had the courage to tell me about.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.

The fat man smiled. "But do you have the nerve to tell the world about yourself?" Paul sighed and looked at his hands. "No," he said, "I don't." "So what can we do, if we're all too frightened?" "Live with dignity, I suppose. And try to learn to love one another, as they say.

Worlds are there to be conquered." I was light but I meant what I said. We were living at a time when for the adventurous and imaginative man anything was possible. Bonaparte had inspired, no doubt in a bad way, an entire generation.

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

O, über die weilden, unbiegsamen Männer, die nur immer ihr stieres Auge auf das Gespenst der Ehre heften!

Yes, Ba said sadly, it is impossible. But it is not ridiculous.

Once she had an infected tooth that was getting progressively worse along a trip. Getting help was simply too dangerous, so she knocked out her top row of teeth with the handle of the gun she always carried. Now that's commitment.

there'll always be people who are afraid of living and afraid of dying. And there are always more of them than there are risk-takers, the people who bring innovation into every area, with or without drugs.

I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.