Quotes About Courage

I guess that's how people go on, without knowing how.

I don't know if I could do it, actually—aim my right hook at my mother's little glass jaw, and follow through, reckless to express myself

But now it was time to go beyond comfort, to part.

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

The route to our highest hopes tends to run right through some dark, booby-trapped places. A girl needs a map and a light to steer her; she might need a flamethrower or a cannon as well. She might need a pirate lover.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

You can hardly walk up to complete strangers and say, "Good for you! You've risked banishment and brutality and ostracism just to be together, and I applaud your choice! You're in the vanguard of social change, and even though it's hard on you, the generations that come after you will have an easier time of it because you were brave enough to fall in love." So instead I told them I liked their baby. It means the same thing, but it's more socially acceptable.

I am your friend. I will not fail you at your darkest hour. For this, more than the prestige, he had always wanted to be a Rider—for this utter, bone-deep sense of commitment to a unit and an ideal.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

As His Holiness the Dalai Lama said to me once, "A tiger does not apologize.

Give me two weeks to have my baby and then you can kill me.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

So don't worry if someone doesn't have your dream listed in their little book. Go out there and write your own.

Pro surfer. Sometimes you only need to hear someone say it out loud. Sometimes you only need to say it to yourself to make a dream come true.

What he did know was that the only way to get from nowhere to somewhere was to believe in yourself and take a chance.

The wave is so incredibly steep, breaks with such raw power, that the only way to survive is to turn your back to the wave and paddle into the face with 100 percent commitment. Any hesitation at all and the wave will smash you into the reef.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.

Fearless love looks like this: I don't care what you think of me, there is a God in heaven who loves you so much that you won't care who I am; by the time you meet Him.