Quotes About Courage

Was it possible to live so defensively that you never got to live at all?

How light is your heart? Could you carry it over a bridge made of a single hair?

Most important, the reason I wrote this book is to serve as proof that miracles do happen, that love can and does heal wounds, that there is hope for those with the courage and fortitude to seek healing.

no demon can posses you if you maintain the ability to turn and laugh at it

Magic finds a way, warrior.

I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus... If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

If you get up to fight a battle, you might lose. But if you choose never to fight, the loss is guaranteed.

Victory requires a fight. But the greatest risk of all is that you won't fight—that you'll allow fear to keep you on the couch, with your talent buried in the ground and all of its multiplying effects dormant and dead.

Fear and unbelief are actually correlated: if we allow fear to control our lives, it is a choice not to trust God.

Todos sabemos que todo tendrá fin algún día, pero no podemos dejar que eso nos frene. No debemos dejar que nos impida vivir.

We all know that everything will end some day, but we can not let that slow us. We must not let that stop us from living.

Life had already taught Stephen one thing, and that was that never must human beings be allowed to suspect that a creature fears them. The fear of the one is a spur to the many, for the primitive hunting instinct dies hard -- it is better to face a hostile world than to turn one's back for a moment.

To keep life in his desolate, long-suffering soul, he had stored his mind with much profound learning. So now many poor devils went to him for advice, which he never refused though he gave it sadly. It was always the same: 'Do the best you can, no man can do more -- but never stop fighting. For us there is no sin so great as despair, and perhaps no virtue so vital as courage.

Who are you to deny me the right to love?

Have you ever thought about the enormous courage of trees? I have, and it seems to me amazing, The Lord dumps them down and they just gotta stick it, no matter what happens.

The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; only one of ourselves can someday do that...It will need great courage but it will be done, because all things must work toward ultimate good; there is no real wastage and no destruction.

I want life, and yet I'm always afraid.

Yes, that's why I'm so frightened, you make me feel strong—

If you'd been a dog, They would have drowned you at birth.

We're all afraid, Olivia," Henry answered, his voice quiet. "You can't make it through life without it. The trick is figuring out that the thing you need is just on the other side of that fear. The only way you can reach it is by going right through the center of it.

I...should have...risked it." She grasped Alex's hand in both of hers as if she were cupping life-giving water. "Life isn't...meant to be spent...hiding in the corner with your arms huddled over your head, protecting...yourself from anything that might hurt you. Life should be...embraced.

Like anything hard in life. You breathe through it for one minute at a time. That becomes ten minutes, then twenty, then an hour. And before you know it, you've made it through another day, then a week, then a month. And if you're lucky, very lucky, you have someone there to hold your hand and help you through.

Do not let your fears stand in the way of your happiness. If you're willing to let those fears be more important to you than the love you feel for him, then I would have to agree with what you said before. He does deserve someone better.