Quotes About Courage

I should have stayed in my nest, which was, of course, my ignorance. Now I was out among the giants, and I would have to be more vigilant.

I cannot lead an army, and fighting disgusts me, but destiny, or the forces of chaos, saw fit to equip me in other ways.

Even though she stood beyond the shadow, she had to shiver.

Khaster was weeping now, the same tears he had wept a thousand times in boyhood, when he'd curled himself into a dark corner, overcome by feelings of inadequacy and fear. Valraven had always found him, brought him out into the light, filled him with strength.

If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

Don't think me a mouse, she thought, or even a little wren. I will discover for myself what kind of animal I am.

He felt that once the dark of the forest closed over them, they would never see clear sunlight again. Yet it was the kind of fear that excited him, made him want to dare its shadows.

There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

Strickland Gillilan

Some say that we should stop exploring space, that the cost in human lives is too great. But Columbia's crew would not have wanted that. We are a curious species, always wanting to know what is over the next hill, around the next corner, on the next island. And we have been that way for thousands of years.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is acting in spite of fear.

Albert Camus said of the Spanish struggle: It is now nine years that men of my generation have had Spain within their hearts. Nine years that they have carried it with them like an evil wound. It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many men, the world over, regard the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.

Thirrin's fighting spirit still roared within her though, and as the creature lowered its jaws towards her throat she punched it hard on the nose. The werewolf shook its head and sneezed, taken completely aback.

I can assure you that frostbite to any part of that animal's anatomy wouldn't delay us for a second. If she was unfit to travel I'd personally poleaxe her," Thirrin said with venom. Then she added as an afterthought, "And I'd enjoy it!

We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white. ~Lew Fonesca

We may not be big but we're small!

He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

Indeed, anxiety or angst, as term-coiner Søren Kierkegaard first meant it, is the feeling that matures us, after we take "leaps of faith" into life, into

My dad was in the FBI when Hoover ordered the roundup of Asian Americans. He hated it and quit, joined the navy, and spent the next three years fighting in the South Pacific. Like so many, he didn't talk a lot about the war. But when it came to leaving the FBI, he told me once, "You can always say no.

Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person.

Stone had thought about dying before , but never in such close proximity to the event. Would his whole life flash before his eyes ? Would it be less painful if he just relaxed and let it happen ? He discovered he could not give in to it ; he would go down fighting with what meager resources he had left.