Quotes About Courage

I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman's breast, you are cutting more than just a body part.

Pain is weakness leaving your body

Sometimes the most courageous thing a man can do is run back across the battlefield and rescue the wounded.

All hearts stop, Annie. What matters is what you do with it while it's still pumping.

I've been hurt, I imagine we all have, and I think somewhere in that pain we convince ourselves that if we don't open up and love again, we don't have to hurt again.

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it's played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you... That's when you find out what's in your heart.

Whether or not I wake up . . . I'll have a new heart.

In my experience, it's those words on the tip of the tongue that we most need to hear. They are the key. The thing that's missing. But you can't pull them out. They have to be offered. Freely. And they won't be offered until the owner trusts you with them. And to do that means they've got to break through a world of hurt and pain just to get them out of their mouth.

Hope has a funny way of cracking people down the middle. Cutting through the tough places.

When people become afraid on a soul level, when the terror of their lives has taken up residence in their belly, it becomes the wall behind which they sequester themselves. The only way through is to tunnel under. Meet them inside their perimeter. Problem is, the depth of their pain determines the thickness of the wall.

I used to think the same thing. Thought that by keeping it to myself, I was protecting you. Truth is—" He shook his head and spat again. "The truth is the only thing that doesn't hurt.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. —Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest. "You got to fight it with your heart." She pulled me back to her chest and sucked through her teeth like she was trying to pick the corn out with her tongue. "If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.

life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.

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the magnetic hope that bubbled forth from each, a hope that no power in hell or on earth could ever extinguish.

I will not let the fear of what might be rob me of the promise of what can.

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

All the other virtues, and the living of a virtuous life, depend on them. If you took an introductory philosophy course in college, they were probably translated from the Greek as courage, justice, temperance, and prudence.

When in doubt, move, even if it's in the wrong direction.