Quotes About Courage

The Hero's Journey

If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to "fight," as if sickness were a character failing.

But even a declawed tiger still has teeth..." -Anya

To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt.

Beauty, after all, is almost always a matter of angles and resolve.

allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt. It is the human equivalent of the dog rolling on its back—I know you won't hurt me, even though you can. It is the dog putting its mouth around your hand and never biting down. To play requires trust and love.

The Call of the Wild

How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.

Mus skiria baugšti baim?, kad esame nemylimi, bet iš tikr?j? mes tik manome, kad esame nemylimi, nes gyvenam atskirai. Kada nors, n? pats nežinai kada, leisiesi ? keli?. Kada nors, net nežinai kada, sutiksi kelyje j?, o gal tikriau – j?. Ir b?si pamiltas, nes pirm? kart? gyvenime tu jau nebeb?si vienas. Tu pasirinksi niekada nebeb?ti vienišas.

They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

They had terrorized this poor, defenseless beauty. He would make them rue it. As for Kate, after all she had been through, she had impressed him with her self-possession, to say nothing of her fiery spirit. She had stood there ready to battle him like some spunky little terrier barking at a wolf, aye, and throwing the greater predator into temporary confusion with her unexpected show of ferocity. Though petite of build, she was large in courage, a little lady of intrepid spirit

If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.

Very well, then," Alice said barely audibly. "I will be the one to stay." With a tempestuous stare, she turned to him so suddenly that he hardly managed to hide his incredulity. "But if you lay a hand on me against my will, I will not hesitate to have you arrested and I 'shall' press charges against you. If it is scandal that you crave, my lord, you shall have it.

The things we do to eat! Running from scorpions the size of small dogs, dodging 10 foot long rattlesnakes and squashing monster spiders - all in a days work

Fear like that stays inside you forever if you don't find a way to get rid of it.

Courage comes with action. The minute you step forward, the minute you declare your decision, the minute you say, "This is how it's going to go," courage comes. It floods through you and energizes every single fiber of your being. You don't have to wait for it. It'll be there.

Courage comes with action.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.

The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.

Real change, though, is forgiving enough to take a little failure, strong enough to take despair in small doses.

The heart breaks open.