Quotes About Courage

Nothing's more powerful than a woman at that instant before she gives herself.

here all those years ago, I thought maybe everything was going to be all right after all." "And it was.

Being a peaceful people isn't the same as being a defenseless one.

to her. "You

I'm so happy my son wanted me to jump out of a plane.

Seth had mulled it over for a while and had decided that's what a hero was. Somebody who just did what was

I was into third guesses with Theo and Maddy. Anyway, that's one of the reasons I opted to buy the van and drive cross-country instead of dumping us all in a plane. It gave us some time. Nothing like a three-thousand-mile drive in an enclosed vehicle to cement a family unit—if you live through it. It was very brave of you. You want to talk courage? He drove easily up the lane to the villa. I've been chief taste-tester on this wine experiment Maddy's conducting. It's brut

When in uncharted territory, he thought, take one careful step at a time.

Fear can be a weapon just as courage. Without fear there is no prudence. Without prudence there is recklessness. With recklessness, defeat.

No pain, no gain. Without danger, the virtue of courage cannot be developed. Without trials and tribulations we can have no patience. God has to permit sin before we can experience forgiveness. Higher-order virtues are dependent on allowing lower-order evils.

Creamos hombres sin corazón y esperamos de ellos virtud y valentía. Nos reímos del honor y nos sorprendemos al encontrar traidores entre nosotros.

In 1949 the Smokejumpers were still so young that they referred affectionately to all fires they jumped on as "ten o'clock fires," as if they already had them under control before they jumped. They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.

Nobody," he said, "has put in a good day's fishing unless he leaves a couple of flies hanging on the bushes. You can't catch fish if you don't dare go where they are." "Let

I like being a faggot, mate, I like it a lot and I think being free in our middle age is what we deserve for straights making our childhood and our teenage years so cuntish.

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt) Berlin, 1945

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt)

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because, I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings but it will always heal even if you don't want it to, it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It's up to you to find them.