Quotes About Courage

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it—and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas.

How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding ... are simply inauthentic... But there are folks who know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth or the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas.

Real courage is risking one's clichés.

Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.

So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass.

Remember: no hand is a winning hand 'til you dare to lay it down. - Wild Card

For the person courageous enough to see it out, disorientation always leads to love.

What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

Her vulnerability to Wiggs was opening her up (as voluntary vulnerability often can ) in unexpected ways.

are the Cheerios smiling bravely, insisting that the show must go on?

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

Defeatism means turning a disaster into a moral victory.

Consapevole del fatto che non si sarebbe fatta vincere, che nessuna forza oscura, nessun potere avrebbe sconfitto la sua volontà di sopravvivere.

Los sentimientos son libres pero rara vez los hombres se atreven a obedecer esa libertad. Me

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

Take that, nattering nabobs of negativity!

I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."19

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?