Quotes About Courage

I watch every blow, every flinch. I have little choice. I can shut my eyes, but the sounds are just as terrible. And worst of all is Cardan's empty face, his eyes as dull as lead. Truly, he has come by his cruelty honestly in Balekin's care. He has been raised up in it, instructed in its nuances, honed through it's application. However horrible Cardan might be, I now see what he might become and am truly afraid.

No matter how hard she swung at him, it just made him laugh. He liked her anger. Fire, he called it. She liked it when she was angry, too. Angry was better than scared.

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong. It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.

Fear is terrible, but the combination of hope and fear is worse.

Just when you think you've sunk as far as it's possible to sink, there's always a lower place. There's always something worse to be scared about.

I thought I was supposed to be good and follow the rules," I say. "But I am done being weak. I am done being good. I think I am going to be something else.

Los idiotas son los únicos que no se asustan de las cosas que dan miedo.

Once, the thing I am wearing was a sundress, with fluttery sleeves. A diaphanous white gown that flowed around me when I spun. I found it in a shop late one night. I'd stripped off the clothes given to me in the Court of Teeth, left them behind, and put that on instead. I liked the dress so much that I wove myself a crown of hellebores and danced through the night streets. I stared at myself in puddles, convinced that as long as I didn't smile, I might even be pretty.

Only Idiots aren't scared of things that are scary.

only under the water can I allow myself to weep. Only under the water can I admit that I almost died and that I was terrified and that I wish there was someone to whom I could tell all that. I hold my breath until there's no more breath to hold.

I ran anyway. And clutched his fingers as though he could drag me into a world where other kinds of games were possible. Hope lit my heart.

Only idiots aren't afraid of scary things.

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.

What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.

Better to regret actions you have taken than to regret not having had the courage to take them in the first place.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Patty added. "My father always said that." Mary laughed. "What doesn't kill you leaves you scarred, wary, and weary.

Being able to lean on someone else . . . maybe that was brave. I mean, if you leaned on someone, you had to trust that they wouldn't let you fall.

was invincible.

Holly Jacobs

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.