Quotes About Courage

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered. And the fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth.

Even if things go all wrong they'll work out just fine.

Life is a tiger you have to grab by the tail, and if you don't know the nature of the beast it will eat you up.

We turn from all we know and all we fear.

The hawk does not fear you, boy, and the hawk never will. The hawk is God's gunslinger.

His words faded, because here were the switches Dan was looking for. The special switches, the ones with the red handles ... Shine on, he thought, and pulled them all.

She started to turn away, then turned back. She said: 'They did it [September 11] in the name of God, but there is no God. If there was a God, Mr. Staley, He would have struck all eighteen of them dead in their boarding lounges with their boarding passes in their hands, but no God did. They called for passengers to get on and those fucks just got right on.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us. And sometimes...they win...

expect nothing but never lose hope.

Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it

Sometimes the most horrible things are what give us strength.

God says, Sure, take away the safety net. And when that's gone, take away the tight rope too.

It's the people who aren't scared who die young.

Will you share khef with me, and share this water?' 'Yes.' 'Drink, bondsman.' Jake did. Then, before Roland could kiss him, he dropped the cup, flung his arms about the gunslinger's neck, and whispered fiercely into his ear: 'Roland, I love you.' 'I love you, too,' he said, and released him. Outside, the wind gusted again. Jake waited for something to howl – perhaps in triumph – but nothing did.

Horror's a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds.

Here's something else I believe: if you're going into a very dark place—like Wilf James's Nebraska farmhouse in "1922"—then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

Please, always you.

Better to be dirty than dead.

Part of her wanted to run. Never mind how flowing water was bound to take her to people eventually, all that was likely just a crock of Little House of the Prairie shit.

A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way.

zivot je tezak, ako si slab.

Envelhecer não é para fracos, pois não?

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too," I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same.