Quotes About Courage

If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Fear knocked and faith answered.

A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.

Do you realize how terrifying it is to be raped?

As if they could understand what she had been through. As if they knew what it was like to be strong and invincible one day and completely powerless the next.

Sometimes, all you could do was pray for the strength to carry on.

Getting drunk was something for the weak, a crutch for people who were not strong enough to live their own lives, to stand on their own two feet. Drinking was running away from something.

Personality shots," her roommates used to call the first drinks of the night. Liquid courage. Whatever you called it, the point was to turn off the voice in your head that reminded you of everything wrong in your life.

Sam knew that this was exactly how Gamma would've wanted to be remembered: head straight, shoulders back, teeth ground, forever stalking joy.

Karin Slaughter

He said, "What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.

You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special

Paul looked at the man for the first time since he'd walked through the door. "Should I go punch him in the nose?" "Yes." "Will you take me to the hospital when he punches me back?" "Yes." Paul smiled, but only because she was smiling, too. "So, how does it feel to be untethered?

Charlie turned off the engine. She asked, "Can you make the walk?" "Yes." Charlie didn't move. "I don't want to be a jerk—" "Be a jerk." "If you fall in front of those bitches, they'll laugh

Going outside was like walking straight into the mouth of a yawning dog.

Kids like that didn't live the lives they wanted. They survived the lives they had.

The most expensive thing she had ever put on her face was a New York strip after a perp had punched her in the eye.

We are a race of heroes who have outlived the age of heroes!

No heroism in forever following the calculations of one's cunning mind. A man ought to attempt the illogical, if there's fire in his heart.

Where all meaning disappears, and all certainty vanishes, something arises deep inside man: the self-preservation of his essential identity. This identity preserves itself through endurance - I have to face my destiny in silence - and through the courage to live and the courage to die with dignity.

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Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

atheism" ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man. Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842

We were restored, in the first place, because other nations dared to make a revolution, and, in the second place, because other nations suffered a counter revolution: in the first place, because our masters were afraid, and, in the second place, because they regained their courage.