Quotes About Courage

Tonight she would not believe in tragedies or impossibilities.

Nem sempre podemos esconder-nos da vida. (…) É melhor nem sequer tentar e encarar simplesmente o que precisa de ser encarado.

that he really had suffered

La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.

one must not give in to defeat after just one try, or even, perhaps, after twenty.

She willed herself to show no emotion. She steeled herself for the kiss on the hand that she half expected. She came near to crumbling when he kissed her instead, very gently, on the lips. Had he not gone immediately, in fact, without even stopping to look into her face again, he would have seen the tears spring to her eyes; he would have heard the sobs that felt as if they would tear her ribs apart. But he had gone.

If we can only face our worst fears and move forward into them and through them instead of cowering or turning tail and running as far from them as we can, then we will never have to fear anything ever again.

She wondered how possible it was going to be to start a new life.

She must never allow herself to feel either regret or remorse.

Victims wallow. They fret over what they cannot control. And I'm no victim.

Even if they found her alive, her life would never be the same. "I hope so.

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Stop overestimating the challenge and underestimating yourself. —MARY CHRISTENSEN

At times, the solution to a maze is to reduce it to embers ans walk straight through the ashes. ? Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross.

He ain't big and he ain't strong, but that boy's got a by-God streak of fight in him. And he was going to need it.

here's what good people do: We don't give up. We will not be cowed. We will refute their lies. We will get the vote, and we will use it. We will take them to court. We will march in their streets, and we will fight for justice every damned step of the way.

When a man beats his boy, he wants a son who won't buck him. He's trying to make a coward. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it works. And the hundredth boy? We can go either way. Kill the old man, or try to become a better one.

I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.

I do not want to spend another minute of whatever I have left bein' scared. I can't carry the fear anymore. Not mine. Not yours. I have to lay that burden down.

It came to Morgan that Nicholas must have been a beaten boy, too, and that meant Grampa Earp was, as well. Which was no surprise, really, when Morg thought about that mean old man. How many sons were in that chain? Morgan wondered, and grief gave way to the pride he'd felt the day his brother Wyatt stood up to his first bully and put an end to a chain of vengeful, frightened, beaten boys.

Self-disclosure is almost like sex... It isn't easy to bare your soul

You aren't worried about tomorrow, are you?" "What do you think?" He propped himself up on his elbows and studied my face. "You told me last spring it was the easiest thing in the whole wide world. You could hardly wait to jump. Why, even when you got sick you worried you'd die without having a chance to do it." "I must have been a raving lunatic," I muttered.

Eleanor Roosevelt: I gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face—I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. We must do the things we think we cannot do.