Quotes About Courage

If you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't even start.

when I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns.         I study these creatures.         they are my teachers.

then sit down and write or stand up and write but write no matter what the other people are doing, no matter what they will do to you.

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

the nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream is being strangled. the nights you fight best are when the game is fixed, when the crowd screams for your blood.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first, but always be aware of the possibility of total defeat whether the reason for that defeat seems right or wrong.

if you don't have much soul left and you know it, you still got soul.

You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

If you are going to try, go all the way, otherwhise don't even start.

Maybe I'd be a bank robber. Some god-damned thing. Something with flare, fire. You only had one shot. Why be a window washer?

I was the only one without. you could hit bottom and then find another bottom. balls.

The hope is a touch of graceful humor, no matter what's occurring. The ability to laugh, the ability to see the ridiculous, the ability not to tense up too much, when things become impossible, just to face them anyhow. A touch of humor. Let's say laughter through the flame. Or, guts. Courage… Humor, guts, and courage, no matter the odds. We can always face that.

Love is for real men.

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

Your life is your life dont let it be clubed into dank submission