Quotes About Courage

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. 'The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.' 

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

If you hold back for fear of making a mistake you will never accomplish what you must. And with each challenge you will become stronger.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since, in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

No whimpering, madam! You can't have the joys of motherhood without some of its pangs! Think of your blessings, and don't be a coward!—

And all the bars at which we fret,   That seem to prison and control,   Are but the doors of daring set   Ajar before the soul.

What is freedom?" he asked bitterly, "and who is truly free? We are all bound by what we are, and where we come from." "Maybe," I said slowly as I considered the turn my life had taken, the lies I had been told, "because we do not look farther than where we have been told to look. Perhaps it would all be different if we weren't afraid of what we are. Or what we might become.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

Stories are important too. Stories help make sense of things. They make you believe you can do things. They help you imagine that things may be different, that if you just have enough courage... or faith... or goodness... you can change things for the better.

I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?

had proved myself stronger than life had ever asked him to be.

For me, being together, fellow souls joined in fear, was some comfort. For him, that was weakness. In taking his hand I was telling him what I had seen, and that was something he could not allow.

just because you're afraid doesn't actually mean there's anything to be afraid of.

But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

toughness creates a smoke screen to mask vulnerability

I saw in one flash that the most courageous thing a person can do is to love without being afraid.