Quotes About Courage

It's more convenient to have a hero waiting in the wings than to endure a blowhard standing in the spotlight.

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.

You'll be all right,' Elphaba said, 'now you're a seasoned traveler. This is just the return leg of a voyage you already know.' She put her face against Glinda's and kissed her. 'Hold out, if you can,' she murmured, and kissed her again. 'Hold out, my sweet.

This is what it feels like to be a piece of shit, thought Brrr; being pummeled on all sides by the world, forced forward, outward, into naked stink and light.

It seems there is no shortage of regret among the young — but then, they are young, they make mistakes. They have time to correct them and the courage to admit their failings aloud. Adults should try it. But frankly, I think it's a miracle that adults can manage to speak to one another at all, and that the entire species doesn't take a universal vow of silence. Some days I wish it would.

Old Sophia threw a potato at him. 'Without my fear, I'd be a simpleton,' She called after him. To the women on the platform she said, 'I consider that a potato well spent.

How brave that had made her feel, and how vulnerable too.

Your faith can inoculate you against despair.

Life is a challenge, Laura Maria Ciardi, You have to meet it.

Never underestimate the value of a mother in wartime. She has the most to fight for.

Lost is not an address, it's not a permission to fail, it's not an excuse.

You could catalog the thousand ways people shrink from life, as if chance and change are by their nature toxic, disfiguring.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography

What am I waiting for?     What would I do if I weren't scared?     What steps would make things easier?     What would I do if I had all the time and money in the world?     If I were looking back at this decision, five years from now, what will I wish I'd done?

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.        Over-the-counter

enthusiasm spurs us to adventure.

Don't grieve limitations

Gretta Mulrooney

Come to the edge, he said. We can't, we're afraid! they responded. Come to the edge, he said. We can't, We will fall! they responded. Come to the edge, he said. And so they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

Come to the edge, he said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.

I had the courage to look backward The ghosts of my days

Come to the edge,' he said. 'We are afraid,' they said. 'Come to the edge, he said,' and slowly, reluctantly, they came. He pushed them and they flew.