Quotes About Courage

When I was a teenager I would look in the mirror and wish I could wash away my syndrome. I hated it because it caused so much pain in my life.

Even in 'Khatron,' I used to wash my own clothes.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesn't always match what you get out.

We learned about people like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington and Marian Anderson. Harriet Tubman was my favorite.

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

One foot in front of the other was all she could manage.

Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?

That's the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark; but play boldly and no one will question you.

You bluffed him? A Porphyrian double ton of fire and brimstone, fangs like swords, claws like … like swords! And you just … bluffed him?

Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own. We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.

You're stronger than you were when it happened.

Don't be afraid. We're walking away from death, not toward it. Death is going back.

There is no pain - free path, sweet girl. Choosing is what makes like bearable.

This is our lot. Is that what your getting at? And one must choose to walk on, rather that petulantly sitting on one's rump and pouting?

I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said, shrugging, clearly implying that [they] were cowards.

It's not the stronger arm that prevails, but the stronger mind.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy," said Pathka gently. "Whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time. Anyway, don't be afraid. We're walking away from death, not toward it.

Doubt is just another color of fear.

If there was a God who cared, could He make her brave? She liked the idea of it all.

Fight in a time of war as the man you want to be in a time of peace.

Faith, girl, faith. At the end of the day, that's all we have." Charlotte rested her cheek against her