Quotes About Courage

tougher, because she could do and survive things they believed she should neither do nor survive.

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible. The

I can be miserable if I want to. You don't need to try and make it go away. It shouldn't go away. It's just as sad as it ought to be and I'm not going to hide from what's true just because it hurts.

Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something

This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

The piece of sky she could glimpse was a dark carpet of gleaming knives pointed at her and aching to be released. She felt world-hurt—an awareness of malign forces changing her from a courageous adventurer into a fugitive.

lay it all down, sword and shield.

Scary things not always outside. Most scary things is inside.

Yours was the courage to live life in and from its belly as well as beyond its edges.

Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked.

fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.

She slept in the bed with us. Frieda on the outside because she is brave—it never occurs to her that if in her sleep her hand hangs over the edge of the bed "something" will crawl out from under it and bite her fingers off. I sleep near the wall because that thought has occurred to me. Pecola, therefore, had to sleep in the middle.

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous.

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity;

Either I am to live in this world on my terms or I will die out of it.

Knowing his label provided him with both comfort and courage, he believed that to name an evil was to neutralize if not annihilate it.

If you want to fly, you have to give up everything that weighs you down.

If you know how to tread, bottomlessness need not concern you.

We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.

She needed what most colored girls needed: a chorus of mamas, grandmamas, aunts, cousins, sisters, neighbors, Sunday school teachers, best girl friends, and what all to give her strength life demanded of her- and the humor with which to live it.

Umica ka hanu HOLD THE BREATH Be patient; don't give up.

Craignez les anxieux, le jour où ils n'auront plus peur, ils seront les maîtres du monde.

Rick Starmover and Hal Sono in Space Wars: The Return.

Sometimes not knowing enough can allow you to think you can achieve anything.