Quotes About Courage

I stared at the ahosi. It was said that in battle they wore silk skirts and pretty coral necklaces and that their knives left wounds like love blisters on the throats of their enemies.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unknown?

What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

I love myself enough to be who I am.

For a minister's daughter," he said, "you hit hard ... and quite often, below the belt too.

I have to finish what I started. I'd have had that beast on my spear by now, except for Prince Meleager. He saw me wound it and thought I was in danger. The gods protect me from men who mean well!

I felt as if Delphi herself were calling out to me: Come and know me if you can! It takes a special kind of person to learn my secrets. Are you strong or nimble enough to fight through my crowds? Are you smart enough to find your way through my streets? Are you wise enough to deal with any peril or adventure I might choose to throw across your path? I am Delphi, and I dare you to conquer me! And I am Helen of Sparta , I thought. I'm your match, just wait and see.

Falling down does not make you weak, it makes you sore. Not getting back up means you're weak.

How dare you?" I said, all ice. "You coward, how dare you do this? If you wanted to reclaim your honor, you should have come to me alone, like a man." The young guard bit his lips, his thickly blemished face going red, but his helpers roared with laughter. "Hey, Telys, you said this pup was a stranger, but it sounds like he knows you well enough!" one of them exclaimed.

The men didn't want to waste time beaching the ship. I heard a loud splash as Prince Jason himself slung the stone anchor overboard; then he took up his sword and shield before jumping into the hip-deep water. His bare legs churned the water to foam as he raced toward the battle. If lying came easily to him, so did courage; I had to give him that.

I soon set Castor's mind at ease about how I'd protect my borrowed identity. To stave off any challenges I couldn't handle, the first thing I did was issue a challenge of my own against any man who wanted to try his luck besting me in a footrace. I beat five men, including Kalais, a so-called son of Boreas, the North Wind. No one else challenged me for the rest of the morning. What man wanted to risk losing to a woman in front of all his friends?

Being brave doesn't mean always having to fight alone.

If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways.

The more we trust, the farther we are able to venture.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

If you're already a front-end developer, well, pretend you're also wearing a pirate hat.

As we've said, those people weren't "born this way" (if they were, what use would they be as examples for us?). Rather, they were brave enough and patient enough to slowly develop themselves, to till the fertile soil of their own minds over time.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

J'ai reçu assez de dons intellectuels pour pouvoir tout sonder, tout aborder, tout saisir en formules claires ; on me croit supérieurement informée de bien des problèmes de la vie ; pourtant, là, tout au fond de moi, il y a une pelote agglutinée, quelque chose me retient dans une poigne de fer, et toute ma clarté de pensée ne m'empêche pas d'être bien souvent une pauvre godiche peureuse.

Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world. And if you have given sorrow the space it demands, then you may truly say: life is beautiful and so rich.

Il m'arrive souvent, ces derniers temps, de trouver plus facile de mourir que de vivre. (61)

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.