Quotes About Courage

PRIDE: Defining moments capture us at our best—moments of achievement, moments of courage.

What should a Pegasus person do in this situation?

But courage isn't just suppressed fear. It's also the knowledge of how to act in the moment.

authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.

I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?

All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.

I may be injured; I may even be wounded to the heart; but I'm not defeated yet.

love something—or someone—so much that you would willingly sacrifice yourself. I want to be brave like that.

the confidence of the untested.

Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars.

People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness.

Wait for a man to avenge your honour and you'll wait forever.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I took the garland for myself, determined to do on my own what no man dared do for me. Remember that, little sister: wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

For the sake of my daughters in the centuries to come, I must now stand up against this unjust action you are asking of me.

And that is why, O King Ram, I must reject your kind offer to allow me to prove my innocence again. Because this is one of those times when a woman must stand up and say, No more!

There will be challenges—which worthwhile endeavor doesn't have them?—but I am prepared. Love will give me strength. Do not worry about me. It will be a grand adventure.

Bless me that I might be like the Rani of Jhansi, the Queen of Swords," I say. "Bless me that I have the courage to go into battle when necessary, no matter how bleak the situation. Bless me that I may be able to fight for myself and my child, no matter where I am.

Sometimes—she knows this from her own life—to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Seorang pahlawan tetap pahlawan, tidak peduli apa kastanya. Kemampuan lebih penting daripada kelahiran yang kebetulan." -Duryodana

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

He'd probably kill us both with the same blow. A little part of my mind said, That's all right. It would be better than living on alone if he killed Ram.

And that is how, poised in the sky between our new life and our old one, the life we cannot yet imagine and the one we've already begun to forget, I tell her a tale to make her heart strong, to graft her life onto. For of all things in this world it seems to me that that is what women most need.