Quotes About Courage

The thing about hatred… It's the place where people who can't look sorrow in the eye without waverin' run.

I'm sick of reading a bunch of hand-wringing bullshit intended to please your circle of friends, or assuage one's guilt of some kind or another. Take a position, have a point of view and fucking live or die with the consequences or don't write.

I never wanted to be safe... I wanted to be good.

If you hate me, than kill me or shut the fuck up

If you think it'd not work to stay steady, to remain present, to not pull back in the face of terrible suffering, then you have never been in the face of terrible suffering. It's something I've failed at. I try not to flinch, I try not to be overwhelmed, I try not to run away. But I have.

Promise yourself," she said that last time we met, "promise that you'll have a great life, no matter what happens.

most of life, you can be weak inside and get through by putting on a tough outer shell. But if you work in hospice, you have to stay soft on the outside. So in order to stand up straight, you have to have a spine of steel. Two ways to go through the world, two ways to deal with the loss that is an inevitable experience in life—with a hard shell or with a rock-solid backbone.

This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore.

Phryne looked at a large statue of St. Joseph, for whom she had always had an admiration. It can't have been easy, managing a girl with an inexplicable pregnancy. But he had accepted the word of the Lord and not put her away. Later generations had not been so forgiving.

Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out? She laid her painted face against the iron bars and bared her teeth at death.

You've been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets," she remarked amiably. "It's really not a good custom. Curb this tendency to self-immolation.

No, really," said Jack, blushing to show that he wasn't embarrassed at all. "Do

Come along,' I told the donkey. 'There's a precedent for this.' Manny

One can dare a lot if one is Emeritus

She attributed this to having got drunk for the first time at the age of fifteen at a dormy feast on cheap sweet sherry; the memory of that hangover would have caused a girl with less courage to swear off alcohol for life.

Kerry Greenwood

just want one grown-up in parliament, just one. Or maybe two. I wouldn't want the only one to die of loneliness. One person who will not take a party line of safe in-between wishy-washiness, who will say, this is evil, this is wrong, not only that, this is silly, I won't support it .

If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave.

Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Mastering

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I do not ask for a path with no trouble or regret. I ask instead for a friend who'll walk with me down any path. I do not ask never to feel pain. I ask instead for courage, even when hope can scarce shine through. And one more thing I ask: That in every hour of joy or pain, I feel the Creator close by my side. This is my truest prayer for myself and for all I love, now and forever, Amen.

You can do it, Noodles!" Wally said so loudly everyone heard. I licked his nose, and then ran in a circle. My wings flapped once. The wagger was working. "You can do it, Noodles!

Lista para la siguiente aventura, princesa? -Estoy lista si tú lo estás-Dijo ella en voz baja.