Quotes About Courage

she took a breath that didn't feel like she was going to die.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.

As the beast I took your finger. As the Dragon I give you my hand. Now you have crawled and clambered into my heart I can't see you anymore. Are you still there?

Daring is the thing for a fighting man to be remembered by.

He might have been scared but he was brave too. He saved me. Your magic may be powerful, but we are all really good friends and that's so much stronger than any silly spell.

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

Creativity took precedence over accepted beliefs, and going out on a limb seemed invariably more attractive than security.

But I had promised myself, and my grandfather, that never again would I show fear or apprehension of the

Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.

And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try.

Still, I couldn't get over Dad calling those farmers. People might think helping is hard, but really that's the easy part; just look how good it makes people feel. Look how happy all those Red Bend ladies were about chipping in. It's the asking that's so painful. It takes real courage, real strength , to say you're not strong enough to do it alone. Mom must really be hurting for Dad to be so brave.

It's the asking that's so painful. It takes real courage, real strength, to say you're not strong enough to do it alone.

gave me a going-away present on behalf of Rochdale, a book by Paul Tillich called The Courage To Be. Bob wrote inside, Cathy, read this sometime in your life when you need "to be." He was right. Later in my life when I was at a low that book pulled me through.

Remember, you're bruised but not broken.

Laura had been victimized, but she never took on the victim role. That was what was so heroic about her. Even though she'd been fighting for many years, she got up every day determined to better herself.

I do what I can. I already told her that we'd get through this." What Laura was describing was encouragement, not intimacy.

My heart is not a home for cowards. D. ANTOINETTE FOY

Love means vulnerability; people who love you can also hurt you. Making oneself vulnerable is the ultimate in bravery.

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. CHARLOTTE BRONTË, Jane Eyre

To me, bravery isn't a single act; it's facing impossible odds and getting up every day to repeat the whole ordeal.

Making oneself vulnerable is the ultimate in bravery.

There are times when we've had to decide to change or remain the same. Will we be slaves to safe, mundane routines or break out and remake our lives the way we imagine them to be? Real change may entail risk, pain, probably anxiety, and hard work, but it's a way "to be" versus not being. We've all been heroes or cowards in our own narratives, depending on the occasion and the choices we've made.