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Quotes About Courage

Come now,' I said to him, 'and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they have got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.
~ Karen Blixen
All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same. Your father used to say that it is preferable to die rather than to live fearing death.
~ Karen Essex
Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.
~ Karen Essex
Sometimes you have to grab life by the horns and ride it,even if it tries to throw you.
~ Karen Hawkins
Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.
~ Karen Hawkins
I wish I could tell you that I leapt to my feet anyway, snake be dammed. Or that I wrestled the snake and then fought my opponent. But I saw the icy cold disdain in the snake's eyes and did the only prudent thing I could - I froze in my place. After a long few moments, the grew bored and slithered away, as had my opponent. Yet I felt that I had won, for I lived to fight another day.
~ Karen Hawkins
Margaret," she told me time and again, "you may be anything you wish, so long as you're never boring.
~ Karen Hawkins
Some crave the safety of boredom while others crave the bravery of adventure.
~ Karen Hawkins
Mama G nodded and turned away, pulling a tissue from her sweater pocket and wiping her eyes. "I'm making this harder on us both." "Nonsense. You're scared. To be honest, I'm scared, too. But we're together and that isn't going to change.
~ Karen Hawkins
I am not made of porcelain, Anthony. Nor do I need to be wrapped in wool and placed in a box for safekeeping. I don't like boxes; I never have.
~ Karen Hawkins
I appreciated her vigor. I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them. Freak or fake, I'd been asking myself ever since I arrived at college, and here was someone bold enough to be both.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?
~ Karen Joy Fowler
kneel Your Grace, he said curtly, Unless you presume to tell a man of God that he may also fuck himself? Rhian nearly lost her balance, coming off the last dais step.
~ Karen Miller
The tapestry of her life was a work of art created not with a needle but with duty, courage, and honor, sprinkled liberally with laughter and hope.
~ Karen Ranney
The tapestry of her life was dotted with threadbare spots, where grief or pain or loss had eaten through like hungry moths. But those faint traces, instead of detracting from the resplendent tones and rich hues of the intertwined threads, only intensified their splendor. It was a work of art created not with a needle but with duty, courage, and honor, sprinkled liberally with laughter and hope.
~ Karen Ranney
You don't have
~ Karen Rose
Incredulous, Marcus just looked at him. 'Are you kidding me? You have stormed enemy bunkers with bullets flying all over the damn place.' Marcus should know - he'd been shoulder-to-shoulder with Diesel every time. 'Are you seriously trying to tell me you're scared of women stuff? What the hell, Diesel? Just . . . what the hell?
~ Karen Rose
Armor does not make a Mandalorian. The armor is simply a manifestation of an impenetrable, unassailable heart.
~ Karen Traviss
They said the world was divided into those folks who ran away from danger, and those who ran toward it.
~ Karen Traviss
The monsters don't run the gulags and the death camps and the reeducation centers. Regular people do. If they all had the balls to say no, the likes of Halsey, Zhou, or Stalin could never do it all on their own. Could they?
~ Karen Traviss
The best way to deal with it was to gorge on it, overload himself with the pain until it ceased to have any meaning, and not try to avoid it.
~ Karen Traviss
You can run, he said. But you'll only die tired.-Boba Fett
~ Karen Traviss
Maybe after you survived the Sarlacc, nothing ever really scared you again.
~ Karen Traviss
War is a vile thing, and it brings out the worst in beings. But it also brings out their best - courage, sacrifice, resourcefulness, tenacity, comradeship, genius, even humor. Would that we could achieve that enlightened state without shedding blood first.
~ Karen Traviss