Quotes About Courage

You are always asking me why the people don't do something, why they put up with this brutality, why they don't rise up against it, this and that. Okay. You're exhausted, you're shocked, you're sick to your stomach, and you feel dirty. These things are what people feel every day here—and you expect them to get themselves organized? You expect them to fight back? Could you fight back at this moment?

It is not your right to feel powerless. Better people than you were powerless.

Everyone who loves risks losing their heart every minute of every day.

Always believe in miracles, Sarah Booth.

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

He did not want to go to his grave knowing he had risked nothing for the woman he wanted. He wasn't an ass, though. Or if he was, he did not wish to give her incontrovertible evidence of the fact. What to say to her, then, when he knew he was likely to speak too gruffly?

Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

Before she turned around to face him, she wiped away the tears that had started down her cheeks. Nancy didn't cry much, but when she did, she cried in private.

In dragoste nu exista frica, ci dragostea desavarsita alunga frica. Si stii la ce m-am gandit atunci cand citeai? Ca toata viata mi-am trait-o in frica. Dar acum nu ma mai tem.

you are an eagle among canaries. You were born to soar.

The male students stole my equipment and tried unsuccessfully to sabotage my lab work. They told endless filthy jokes and cussed extensively whenever I was within earshot. I learned not to react. They made passes that stopped just short of actual assault. One charmer pinched my rear end so hard I had a bruise on my rump for a week. After I stomped his instep he never did it again.

If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.

Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.

Perhaps, and this is where my breath catches in my throat, perhaps she let herself fall. The day was hers to choose and perhaps in that treetop moment when she looked down and saw the yard, the world, her life, spread out below her, perhaps she chose to plunge toward it headlong. Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose, instead, a single moment in the air.

She knew only that she felt better doing something instead of sitting back, a helpless David facing down an indifferent Goliath.

I learned that "I can't" usually means "I won't," and that "I won't" usually means "I'm scared to.

I'm a hick," I recall saying to him. "No," Harrison answered. "You think you're less than you are. You're a smart hick." And then, "You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

The one I wore to kill Jabba (my favorite moment in my own personal film history), which I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?

Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass.

You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

when you are a survivor, in order to be a really good one, you have to keep getting in trouble to show off your gift.

Take a risk, take a prize.