Quotes About Courage

from J. K. Rowling

She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.

I'm going to go," he said. "All right." He didn't move. Then: "I don't want to." "Do it anyway." He chuckled. "You're a hard woman, Faith Devlin." "Hardy." "I didn't know him. He isn't real to me. Did you love him?" "Yes." But not the way I love you. Never like that.

fear is nothing more than the absence of faith!

Wishing you were here to see the trailblazers,

Dans « Le Silence des autres », film documentaire d'Almuneda Carracedo et Robert Bahar, une victime franquiste confie que, sous la torture, elle réussit à résister aux coups qui lui étaient portés parce qu'elle était en colère et elle était en colère parce qu'elle était à un être humain. (l'une des deux épigraphes)

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

Everything worth doing involves risk.

But we do have other choices, my dear. We can turn our backs on all that we know is right, sit ourselves down, fold our hands and allow wickedness to go unchallenged and therefore to prevail. We can run away and hide. Or we can stand our ground and fight inequality to our last heartbeat, knowing that if we perish, we have done all that we could and others will carry on, just as those who came before us have done.

Tal vez había cambiado de verdad. Y tal vez, si ella se ponía unas zapatillas rojas y entrechocaba los talones, aparecía en Kansas.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

I didn't really need a champion, though--a man who'd slay dragons on my behalf. If I ran into any dragon that needed slaying, I'd take care of it. Although, as a vet tech, I might instead choose to find the appropriate anti-anxiety med to calm the creature without permanently harming it.

I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do . . . . And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.

Despite the enormous evening sky spreading over most of the canvas, its moon no more than a tarnished coin, dull and flat, in a devalued currency; despite the trees, so dark themselves, stretching upward like supplicants, utterly leafless; despite what could be a face, rinsed of feeling, aimed in their direction, the two small figures at the bottom of this picture glow bravely in their carnival clothes, as if the whole darkening world were dimming its lights for a party.

And she found her voice. "Thank you," she said, and looked up at him bravely. "Thank you for bringing the water.

Women," Nellie answered. "Women kicking butt all over the place.

Think carefully first, and then act boldly.

shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking

Nellie grinned. "Dude, I am lovin' this. First a girl pirate, and now this Nanny. It's great, isn't it?" she said as she glanced at Amy. "What's so great about it?" Dan asked. "Women," Nellie answered. "Women kicking butt all over the place.

Nya could see the questions in her mother's face every morning: Would they be lucky again? Or was it now their turn to lose someone?

Some things can't be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.

A bully is only a coward who needs to be shown who's really in charge.

May our sanctuary offer us the strength we need during harsh times.