Quotes About Courage

Fear isn't a bad travel companion. Sometimes, it saves your life.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

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In the darkness, fear my light.

Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental.

I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

I cannot keep to the point. Perhaps I am afraid. It is not easy for me to admit that. My courage is one of the few things about myself that I do not doubt. It is one of the things in which I believe . . . But I would be crazy not to be afraid now.

And I'd said, wouldn't it be easier if you just hit me once in the face, and got it over with?

It was as if he were daring me to look at him . . . and tell him what I saw.

The easiest thing in the world to do when you don't want to look inside yourself is to find escape hatches. You can always make it someone else's fault, it takes a lot of courage to admit that the fault -- or rather the responsibility -- is yours alone. And yet, as I've said before, this is the only way to go forward. If life's a road we travel, it's uphill all the way.

Va' Dove Ti Porta Il Cuore

Feel the fear and do it anyway. Fear is just part of the process of doing something new. We need to feel it, drop stories attached to it, and step through it.

There are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did during the war. There were hundreds of them who assisted the Union soldiers by hiding them and helping them to escape.

Quando non si ha scelta almeno si abbia coraggio

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

Stop Listening to Others.

When/ the piano falls, not /if/. Oh, Alyssa. What a way to live. With potential pain and heartbreak lurking around every corner. And the only way to effectively counter it was to prepare for the worst to happen. Or maybe even to run away from the good things -- like love. If you didn't let yourself love someone, you couldn't lose them. No wonder Alyssa had fought so hard for so long to keep Sam out of her life.

And oh, /that's/ when I jumped him. Such willpower I'd had up to that very moment and it all crumbled. I kissed him, and Lord Almighty, he kissed me and we were both crying. "This is going to be hard," he said. "This life we're choosing." "Maybe so," I said, kissing him again, "but I'd prefer hard and wonderful any day over easy and run of the mill." --Dot to Walt on their interracial relationship.

God knows without hope, very few could survive.

Oh, man. Yeah, Wes was going to kill him. But before he did, Bobby would ask them to put four words on his tombstone : It Was Worth It.

You know, it's not about not being afraid—it's about taking action despite the fear," he pointed out. "That's called courage.