Quotes About Courage

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.

I want to live, he said, So I have to die.

Sara: You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?