Quotes About Courage

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter, makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

Today was scary. But they're all scary. We can't fret around the planet waiting for something to kill us, or worried something's going to kill someone we love. I'm not going to stare off into the void waiting for it all to end.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth.

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

The day's passage was by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It read: That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

Mom would often talk about a refugee boy she'd met in a hospital in Afghanistan. He was the victim of a land mine and had lost a leg. She said to him that she brought greetings to him from schoolchildren in New York. "Tell them not to worry about me," this little boy told her from his hospital bed. "I still have one leg.

What does one say to someone who has just been diagnosed with such a dire illness?

The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith

Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch,

The Bite of the Mango,

The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.

Ishmael Beah's memoir of his life as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, A Long Way Gone.