Quotes About Courage

Maggie's internal monologue used to say: Don't do it. Don't take a writing class. Don't share your writing with others. It's not worth the risk. Your dream could be destroyed. Protect it. Now it says: Go for it. Make it happen. Develop your skills. Pursue your dream.

The hero's achievement, in short, is to affirm life.

Those who are hiding out in cowardice want company!

Virtue often is used to camouflage cowardice.

Time after time, as I and my fellow generals saw that our strategies weren't working, we failed to reconsider our basic assumptions. We failed to question our flawed understanding of our foe or ourselves . . . In the end, all the courage and skill in the world could not overcome ignorance and arrogance. As a general, I got it wrong. And I did so in company with my peers.

Han and Luke exchange, 'What next?' looks.

in real life, monsters weren't always vanquished, and heroes didn't always win.

Stronger men than he had collapsed beneath life's unpredictable sorrows. He could not look to others for his salvation; other people were unreliable, changeable. He could only count upon his own resources, his own courage, his own need for truth.

Their motto was You Don't Have to Come Back . . . You Just Have to Go Out.

This was life. You made the mistakes, you took the knocks, you carried on, you got stronger. Giving up, rolling over, dying – that wasn't an option.

Don't be afraid to make a poem raw as sandpaper. And even though a million protests, twice as many feet, couldn't stop a war, get out there with your small voice, your light tread.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task.

During the darkest days, a saying took hold in Kansas: "there is no god west of Salina.

We were just two wild Indians... on our own and no though of its being wrong. You must not have us treated like children of today. It would spoil the i picture and the interest..' Children back then, she wrote, 'weren't raised to be helpless cowards.' -Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is our custom to close the day with a reading from the Bible. Often when we have indeed seemed heavy-laden, we have found in its words new life and courage. Here on our lonely prairie we have felt a sense of nearness to Him who 'giveth power to the faint,' and have realized anew that 'to them that hath no might He increaseth strength.' However it may be for others, I feel that no homesteaders equipment would be complete without this book of books.

You are a woman of Wisdom, courage, strength, compassion & creativity. Go forth, then, with the fire of CONFIDENCE in your heart. Kindle with care, & never let its brillant flame go out!

She is not burdened with a sensitive heart. Hers just beats.

You're lucky to get your heart broke. That just means you have a heart.

We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we're never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything.

All right," I say and I go on, stronger than Celine Dion's heart.

I don't need help when it comes to self-soothing. I know how to survive and I will survive

He is ten feet away from the wire and his eyes are on the prize and he lifts his arms up in a V—ten feet turns into two feet—and he unclips his helmet—two feet turns into ten inches—and

Ride the wave...Don't wait for it. Don't fear it. Just ride it.