Quotes About Courage

It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.

There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

There is a good side to waiting. It drives you into such a state that all you can do is long for your turn to get through with the thing you are afraid of.

Guns, we don't like to use 'emUnless our enemies choose 'emWe prefer to fight you on like a man andBeat you down with our hands, and bodyslam youAt the wild, wild west.

By the same token, I think it's time that we allow ourselves to experience real anger as women. And I don't mean that passive aggressive dance that we've employed for too many years. It's not real anger if it is implied or a few degrees removed, if it takes the form of whispering, or cold shoulders, or silent treatment. Real anger is what popular culture would have us be afraid of, based on the fact that it is not courteous, elegant, or feminine.

Self harm or suicide is never the answer. Don't let the haters win.

But I'm willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.

Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building. And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.

Takako looked into Hiroki's eyes and grinned. "You've become quie a stud." "And...you're the most stylin' girl in the world." Takako smiled faintly. She wanted to thank him, but she was out of breath. She just stared at Hiroki's eyes. She was grateful. At least she wasn't going to die alone. The last person to stay with her ended up being Hiroki. And she was grateful. She really was.

Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.

Giving up is what kills people.

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

We're women & we deal with it, & we do it in a way that somehow becomes a gift. Isn't it something that we can take something so painful it makes you drop to the floor & turn it into a life lesson that makes you actually glad it happened? That's what women do. We get on with it.

Fear can wash away your dreams and fill up all the corners of your heart. You can drown in your fear. Do you hear this? Someday you will have to begin living, and how you do that will be a huge surprise to you because it will be like nothing you ever imagined. Nothing at all.

She is sure that tomorrow is not guaranteed and that too many women and men wait so long to say something, feel something, or go someplace. Too damn long

Letting go does not have to be just because of a death. People lose many things they once believed they would have forever.... Let go. I guarantee that you will not fall

Whatever loss you hold against your breastbone... All that loss needs to be colored in & then held to the light.

Somehow the human heart figures out how to move on. It isn't easy but the alternative is a bit much.