Quotes About Courage

woman. Courage like a mountain lion. All of that is inside you, Tori Burton,

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim. It took courage. Not cowardice.

taunted me with a bottle, saying they would push it up my butt. I was terrified that if I was the only one who stuck my neck out and told the truth of what we all saw, I'd be outed and worse. I honestly believed they might beat and kill me if I came forward and ratted on them and Jon and the other team members.

told her if Jon Rittenberg or Daisy found out, they would do anything to stop her from exposing them. But she continued like she had nothing to lose. And maybe she didn't have anything left to lose,

This is it. No more secrets. No more walls. The now is all we've got. I want truth. The whole truth. I'm no longer afraid of looking too deep. I'm ready no matter what I find.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Loreth Anne White

Otherwise they make me try again. Getting old and sick is not for the meek, I tell you." She hesitates, coughs. "It's such hard work sometimes I wonder if it's worth fighting to stay alive.

Horrible, horrible things can happen to very good people.

Buck up, buttercup, you've come through worse.

There is no animal more invincible than a woman

If you want respect, you must take your medicine like a brave aristocrat," he said. "Think of the French nobles who walked to the guillotine, double chins aloft.

Adan necesitó a alguien, sin duda. Jamais habría tenido el coraje de comerse esa manzana él solito. Eva tendría que habérsela comido sin decirle nada e dejarlo andar errante como un asno por el Edén, un bruto ignorante idéntico a los otros brutos que lo rodeaban. el muy idiota ni siquera sabía que estaba desnudo. Y quem diablos cosió esos taparraboos de hojas de figuera, te pregunto? Él no habrá sido, de eso puede estar seguro.

Coward" he said softly. She stopped and turned and marched back to him. She dropped her reticule, grasped his neckcloth, cupped his face, dragged his mouth to hers, and kissed him.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?" "Of course not." "But he's..." "He's sweet," Molly insisted. Dare snorted. "He's still listening.

love means breaking all the rules

I think of a Flannery O'Connor quote: "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around it.

Take a risk. Maybe our pasts don't define us but inform us.

But what are we so afraid of? It's not as if we're going to peer in those darker corners, flip on the light, and find a bunch of cockroaches. Fireflies love the dark too. There's beauty in those places. But we have to look in there to see it.

The only way out is through." The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around it. But I can't even picture the entrance right now.