Quotes About Courage

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run. "All you have to do, Mountain Goat, is show old Demon that you're not afraid.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

Dad kept telling me that he loved me, that he never would have let me drown, but you can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.

I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.

Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper.

Life's too short to worry about what other people think... Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.

Dad's death didn't hollow me out the way Helen's had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death and, despite his gimp and speech impediment, lived a long life doing pretty much what he wanted. He hadn't drawn the best of cards, but he'd played his hand darned well, so what was there to grieve over?

Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self. Rex Walls

I could hear people around us whispering about the crazy drunk man and his dirty little urchin children, but who cared what they thought?

We're becoming a nation of sissies.

You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire.

Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.

You busted your snot locker pretty good.

My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships.

Most important thing in life," he would say, "is learning how to fall." *

The scar meant that I was stronger than what had tried to hurt me.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, Dad said: They love the freighter people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Don´t be afraid of your dark places, Mom told her. If you can shine a light on them, you´ll find treasure there

Jeannette Walls

I've always liked Abraham, a preacher from Hopewell Road whose name often appears in "Among the Colored People," a column in the Claiborne Gazette, but some folk complain that Abraham is a little too quick to speak his mind, not properly deferential, thinks the rules don't apply to him, doesn't know his place—he won't let his wife clean the houses of white folks

Jeannette Walls

What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming, and there was only one way to deal with it: by climbing aboard.

Don't be someone else's little cheerleader", Mom said. "Be the star of your own show. Even if there's no audience.