Quotes About Courage

When climbing the ladder of life, don't let boys look up your dress!

Jill Shalvis

SonOfAMotherlessGoat

I don't know where that's is going," she confessed, still looking at his mouth. "Maybe nowhere. I was just …" He smiled. "Feeling brave?" She smiled back, looking so sweet. "Yeah." Damn, he liked her. "Feel free to be brave any time you want.

Thought you weren't afraid of anything." Turned out, she was afraid of plenty, including how just looking at him could change the rhythm of her heart.

The term daredevil applies to some of these people and comes from the root word dares, which stands for Disregard All Reasonable Expert Suggestions.

Nothing changes until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.

Avoidance is like feeding a monster that will come alive and plan a future attack, but this monster will lose power when it is brought out into the light.

There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

They say you can know a man by his enemies, Dresden. He smiled, and laughter lurked beneath his next words, never quite surfacing. You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves. He nodded slowly. I think I like you.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.

Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

I know how you feel, I said. You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.