Quotes About Courage

Bear them we can, and if we can we must.

Nobody can laugh at you if you laugh first; the laugh with you.

Life has dealt her some hard blows; she has accepted them and made the best of things. She does not expect Fate to be kind.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be...

If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War

I was safe. Uncomfortable as hell, but safe.-Bobby, RR

T]he bottom line is that I made the right decision. So maybe it's okay to think like a weenie sometimes, so long as you don't act like one. There's grand philosophy in there someplace.

I guess she was being politically correct . . . or a weenie. Maybe that's the same thing.

D.J. MacHale

'Goldenheart' is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It's a new version of these battles - age-old stories for the now.

I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.

Good will always prevail over evil. I see that in me versus Klitschko.

The Fatherland Liberation War, which the Korean people fought against the haughty U.S. imperialists who had battened on aggression and pillage, was, in fact, a hard fight that could be likened to a bare-handed man versus brigandish robbers.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.

I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.

I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.