Quotes About Courage

The softening of her resolve was devastating to her, but she could not shrink from him again and live with herself. She understood all too clearly that it took more courage to stay and face him and the unknown, unexplored part of her than it took to leave. Aaren

To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads.

I hugged safety close to my chest and kissed risk full on the lips.

Pull yourself together and use what you have.

The high fear was over, and nothing was left but the fear that never stops, the one that asks and asks, *How shall I stay alive today?*

Because I was too afraid, I walked to the corpse and looked at it. It was bad. Then not so bad—a man turning into bone.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn't know the difference.

Their fathers had been slaughtered over the stretch of a half-century by the Persians, their mothers raped. And still they had not caved in.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Getting old ain't for sissies.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Old age is no place for sissies!

Old Age Ain't For Sissies. Taken from a Bette Davis quote.

I would rather have a go at something I feel, and be hurt, than always be protecting myself—that way one does not really live.

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

Betty G. Birney

Betty G. Birney

Betty MacDonald

Drown, your heart stops. Take a bullet to the brain, your heart stops. Get the holy living hell beat out of you while you sit duct-taped to your wheelchair, your heart stops.

Bettye Griffin

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken