Quotes About Courage

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

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

I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.

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

The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

With every lecture, you're forced to look again at every choice you've made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

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

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

Nunca sabes cuan fuerte eres hasta que ser fuerte es la única elección que tienes. Y cuando esto sucede, eres intocable.

Brandy says, Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes. Brandy says, I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom, Tyler says, you never really succeed.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

Miss Rona says nothing is gross. Miss Rona says the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

It's not that I want to get mar­ried. I ad­mire guys who can com­mit to a tat­too.

No­body wants to wor­ship you if you have the same prob­lems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hang­nails, as a reg­ular per­son. You have to be ev­ery­thing reg­ular peo­ple aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what peo­ple are too afraid to be. Be­come whom they ad­mire.

At least Anne Frank," Comrade Snarky said, "never had to tour with her book . . .

Hero isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.

Then I thought, a sex change, she says, a sexual reassignment surgery [...] It was just the biggest mistake I could make. The biggest challenge I could give myself. She says, You have to jump into disaster with both feet.