Quotes About Courage

She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum. Do

Joan was a young woman who tried to walk her own path in the world of men, just as my great-aunt told me. And it led to this cold tower, this swan dive, this death.

I would rather see you dead at my feet than dishonored.

This is a woman who has not been tamed to be as others want; she has not been cut down to fit her circumstances.

she taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a straight road towards it. "It doesn't matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn't matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to make up your mind what you want, and have the courage to set your heart on it.

I cannot catch courage from his smile. I have to do this all entirely alone, with thousands of strangers watching my every movement. Nothing is to detract from my rise from gentry woman to Queen of England, from mortal to a being divine: next to God. When they crown me and anoint me with the holy oil, I become a new being, one above mortals, only one step below angels, beloved, and the elect of heaven.

It's not magic. It's what any slut does if she has her wits about her.

It doesn't matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn't matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to make up your mind what you want, and have the courage to set your heart on it. You will be Queen of England, your husband is the king. Through you, the Yorks regain the throne of England that is their right. Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.

It is the old smile of gritty courage that all women show who have gone through hard nights and come out without betrayal.

I do not prepare for defeat. To do so would be to betray myself.

Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.

And nobody in this world will ever call me Mrs. Fool.

I think I've had my best days and I never expect to be happy again. But no, you're wrong. I want to live. I would rather live than die and I would rather be queen than dead. But I'm not frightened of you or your knife. I've promised myself that I will never care for anything that you say or do. And if I were afraid, I would rather die than let you see it." He

I'm not a girl, afraid of the unknown, I am a woman; I can face fear, I can walk towards it.

To let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. Sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it. And sometimes you have to find courage to know that it was your folly or your wrongdoing which lost it; before you make a spell to bring it back, you have to change yourself. That's one of the deepest transformations that can be.

We teach our boys and girls to know their fear and step towards it as their friend. To use it as a warning. Far braver to face it than go away.

Really, if it were not for Joan of Arc, I would think that girls are completely useless

I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, This is not right. —Claudette Colvin

It takes a certain amount of courage, he though, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

If you need to be rescued by someone, become that someone yourself. Become Princess Charming. She is you.

and if my heart isn't in my mouth it's because it knows its place

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

Outside, Wally, Josh, and Jake stared at each other. "You want to spend the night in the Bensons' garage?" asked Jake. "How about a one-way ticket to Texas?" moaned Josh.

Un foie, deux reins, trois raisons d'utiliser la baïonnette.