Quotes About Courage

There is no middle ground, no safe place; not here, in the Great Alone.

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice. Taking

It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life. That's why women like Gloria Steinem are burning their bras and marching on Washington.

It's a dangerous business … going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." —J. R. R. Tolkien

There's nothing wrong with being scared. It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we are afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.

I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I'll do it.

Don't you dare say that to me, not this time. Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is, Angel. Being afraid, being afraid in the marrow of your bones, and going on.

History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another--what we have in common--that will save us.

Motherhood at times like this—most times—was about the steel in your spine, not the bend.

You're stronger than you think you are. You can get through this, whatever happens, you can get through it. Just don't forget...the rain. It's an angel's tears. And every glass you've ever seen is half full. Don't let yourself forget that. I know what it does to a person... forgetting that hope is out there.

No matter how dark a place is, there are always moments of light.

Fear made you run and hide and shame made you stay quiet

We've gone through bad times before and survived, even thrived. History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit. In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another—what we have in common—that will save us.

Marah. To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down—girls can be really mean to each other—but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Let him think she was as safe as one could be. A coward.

He should know better than to dream so big and to give voice to those dreams.

We must never forget these remarkable women and the daring, dangerous choices they made to save others and to protect and fight for their way of life.

Rose, who spoke for the first time about her own lost children, had showed Elsa that grief could be borne one day, one chore, at a time.

Loreda wanted to be angry. What had Jack said to her the first day they met? You have fire in you, kid. Don't let the bastards snuff it out. Something like that. Loreda didn't want to be the kind of woman who suffered in silence. Refused to be.

A generation of men were going off to war. Again. Don't think about it, Vianne told herself. Don't remember what it was like last time when the men limped home, faces burned, missing arms and legs...

We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.

Don't think about who they [the Nazis] are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you [Mother Superior to Vianne].

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it.