Quotes About Courage

That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die.

what I wanted was to be willing to be afraid

Starlings in Winter I feel my boots trying to leave the ground, I feel my heart pumping hard. I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.

Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.

I don't want to live a small life. Open your eyes ... open your life, open your hands.

each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth.

In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator./In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting/to come out of its cloud and lift its wings.

Fear defeated me. And yet, not in faith and not in madness but with the courage I thought my dream deserved, I stepped outside.

I know I can walk through the world

I don't want to be demure or respectable. I was that way, asleep, for years. That way, you forget too many important things.

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.

In the darkness they wondered if they could do it, and knew they had to try to do it.

Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned— if not enough else— to live with my eyes open.

You broke the cage and flew.

Those days I was willing, but frightened. What I mean is, I wanted to live my life but I didn't want to do what I had to do to go on, which was: to go back.

What kind of life is it always to plan and do, to promise and finish, to wish for the near and the safe? Yes, by the heavens, if I wanted a boat I would want a boat I couldn't steer.

Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own

We did not know she was sick, but she has come to the fence, walking like a woman who is balancing a sword inside of her body.

I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame.

When the thumb of fear lifts, we are so alive.

Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

And look! look! look! I think those little fish better wake up and dash themselves away from the hopeless future that is bulging toward them. And probably, if they don't waste time looking for an easier world, they can do it

His heart nearly stopped. A ship was outlined against the sky! Behind it, he saw two smaller ships. As the ships came into view, their bright sails were filled with wind and their serpent prows blazed in the new sunlight.

Come with me." Roberto