Quotes About Courage

Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way.

Just at that moment, I was what Karla once called the most dangerous and fascinating animal in the world: a brave, hard man, without a plan.

Crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength.

Every virtuous act has some dark secret in its heart, Khaderbhai once told me, and every risk we take contains a mystery that can't be solved.

You're so loved,' she said. 'And I'm so glad to finally tell you.' It was too much, it was every dream. Doubt, the thing that fights love, pushed me to the cliff, daring me to jump. I jumped.

And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

Tell people as much as they need to know, he said. I remember that he was smiling when he said it, like there was nothing to it. And ask people for help, he said. You'll be all right … Don't worry … It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun …

loves that produce our courage.

I don't know what scares me more,' she declared, 'the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

I looked at the face—the long, fine nose and wide brow and upward curving lips—and wondered, not for the first time, and not for the last, if my love for him would cost me my life.

Non so cosa mi spaventa di più: il potere che ci schiaccia o la nostra infinita capacità di sopportarlo.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay. -Elphaba

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows

You can endure any sort of prison if you can apprehend a window in the dark.

We learned not to let the fear of failure stop us from attempting to fulfil our dreams - whether that dream involved a change in career, attempting to set world records, or helping young people.

I'm an Olympic champ. I defeated Demetrious Johnson. I defeated T. J. Dillashaw. You think a World Series of Fighting former champ is gonna scare me?

I love to remember the World Trade Centre walk, but it should not define me.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

Dad was in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to 1918, as well as uncle Leonard.