Quotes About Courage

I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and courageous, and you do not suffer fools...

What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.

Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face

But it's okay that you think that. I think it takes a lot of energy and hard work to pretend things are perfect. I think I'd get really exhausted trying to pretend that. Sometimes it takes a lot of guts and bravery to admit that things aren't perfect, that they're not even okay. How would anyone know I needed help if I was always pretending everything was fine?

No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker)

I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die....

God? I don't care about that. I made an oath to myself that I will destroy the devil! To my friends that I would fight alongside them! To my father that I would keep walking until the end.! I made an oath to all of them!! This is the only path that I can take to feel alive." (Allen Walker)

How noble. But that's your fatal error. Right, boy?

You really are a crybaby. Are you going to face Allen like this?" "Oh well…don't tell anybody, okay?" "As if I would.

Good luck, boy. Stick it out…work things out with that monster inside you!

Struggle and suffer, Fourteenth! (heart)

He resolved to never lose hope - not as long as breath was left in his body. And when death did come, he would release life in hope of the resurrection.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

It takes courage to say things differently: Caution and cowardice dictate the use of the cliché.

I don't want us to be together because either of us is afraid. We have to be whole before we can share what we are with each other

She was one in a million, Tyler was. A strong, intelligent woman with the beauty to launch ships and the courage to follow them into battle. Kane could recall a number of past occasions when he'd been glad to have her at his side when things had gotten sticky. Tyler never waited for the cavalry to come charging to the rescue, but instead grabbed a big stick and started swinging. She'd very nearly brained him once or twice.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

All I trust is whistling in the dark. from section 3 of "Radiantly Indefensible," The American Poetry Review (vol. 49, no. 3, May/June 2020)

She and Lisa always called that kind of snow heroic, because a person could do no wrong in it. Everyone skied like a hero in that kind of snow.

What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us?

What was it, she wondered, that made some people give up and others fight harder? Where was her fight? She was out.

You're in the hallway and it feels scary right now but just keep going. There's another door, and you're going to find it. And then the whole world is going to open up to you.