Quotes About Courage

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the biographical [movie] Julia. "I like your anger…. Don't you let anyone talk you out of it.

You're the one who taught me that there is truth below the surface of tales. That we can learn courage from them. That they can teach us how to live our lives.

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

Life doesn't always go according to plan. Sometimes heading in a new direction can be scary until you realize you're headed toward a new and exciting destination.

Where there's life, there's hope," I said. Hope. How I'd needed it, in those dark days when it seemed that Papa would never be found, dead or alive. I thought of Alexander again. "Thank you," I whispered.

His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

Father O'Sullivan.

Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.

What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

You must expect to make enemies." "I never expect to make anything else," he said.

A woman who could look death squarely in the face and smile was beyond the plane of physical ruin.

my subjects' willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.

Why is she trying so hard to hide? She's never been a follower.

In old Celtic stories, where life is dark and full of danger, poets and seers teach people how to face the darkness. They teach that life is about standing in a narrow passage, in the dark, with your back against the wall, facing a dragon. There is no escape. The only question, in these old stories, is how well you fight. This is a somber vision, but also one that celebrates the courage that the darkness calls forth.

Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

Because the reward is worth the risk.

Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

anything else?

bruises, but as she rubbed at them—making a horrible

Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.