Quotes About Courage

I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.

Laurie Paige

Women who live the life of their dreams don't get there by being dainty and darling. They demand what they want and they do what it takes to make it happen. That could mean breaking a few rules, a few hearts, and a few habits along the way, especially the habit of apologizing for who you are.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

He alone is a man, who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies.

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.

It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line!

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles.

Malooh, the Bengal tiger,

And there we were in the Croc Pools: a herd of elephants, two crocodiles, a dog, and a sweaty group of men united by the most basic instinct of all—

But sometimes you have to go for it in life. If you just sit around thinking, then nothing ever happens. And with that I was seized by a moment of clarity.

Lawrence Anthony

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Constantly risking absurdityand deathwhenever he performsabove the headsof his audiencethe poet like an acrobatclimbs on rimeto a high wire of his own making

la ingeniosa frase de Winston Churchill— «lo único que vas a hacer es remover escombros».

The choice of strategy might be based on common sense: the test of character was to find this in situations of extreme stress.

I don't govern my life according to danger