Quotes About Courage

Mama is beautiful," I said. "Mama is strong," he said. "Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

In the weeks following September 11, many in America participated in ceremonies to honor the heroism demonstrated by public safety personnel during and after the attack. These individuals ran in the opposite direction from the people fleeing the World Trade Center buildings. They ran toward the threat, not from it, and, in doing so, gave their lives in the attempt to save the innocent victims.

Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.

He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.

the skyscrapers of God dominated the countryside. They had made them as high as possible, extraordinarily high. It may seem a disproportion in the ensemble. Not at all, it was an act of optimism, a gesture of courage, a sign of pride, a proof of mastery! In addressing themselves to God, men did not sign their own abdication.

You have zeal - have you nerve?

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

I love her courage and heart! Funny, poignant, wise, and woke—an ideal travel companion." —Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN)

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. keep fighting. keep loving

Your heart is a weapon the size of your first. Keep fighting. Keep loving. More than bombs, fire, guns or arrows, love is the most powerful weapon in the Hunger Games. It stirs and feeds the rebellion. It saves the doomed. It destroys the bereaved. And it gives even the most devastated survivors a reason to go on.

But Gale? Gale is a warrior. He's a rebel. He's a badass. He's a knight.

Katniss Everdeen can survive her darkness because she understands the same truth that's expressed in that graffiti in Palestine. Her heart is a weapon, and the way to keep fighting against all the horror and cruelty of the world is to wield that weapon. To keep loving.

following the herd was not a good thing, that it was a terrible thing to do

Estou procurando um lugar que precise de muitas reformas e consertos, mas que tenha fundações sólidas. Estou disposto a demolir paredes, construir pontes e acender fogueiras. Tenho uma grande experiência, um monte de energia, um pouco dessa coisa de 'visão' e não tenho medo de começar do zero. - Steve Jobs

But one thing she'd learned was that if a girl didn't ask, a girl wouldn't get.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.