Quotes About Courage

In bocca al lupo' 'Crepi il lupo

I'm not that woman anymore. In fact, I can hardly recognize her now, that weak creature who'd submitted, pretended, smoothed over every ripple of trouble that rose.

Run first, mourn later.

protecting him from the world can't

Rachel Caine

I'm not ready. But I begin.

He leaned down and stared into the lion's savage eyes and said, Come on, then, if you're coming. Take a bite. But if you do, everybody will know it wasn't an accident.

Hope was a great deal like fear.

I've never been through what you have, but I've been in the dark a few times. Sometimes the light's just too bright.

Anything worthwhile is worth fighting for,' Claire said. 'Not always with guns and stuff. But with … taking a stand. Right?

Crepi il lupo. Kill the wolf.

Out of nowhere, he remembered something his father had told him when he was just a child. When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

Run, I see him say, enunciating it so I can lip-read. Run away. I walk instead. Slowly. Calmly. Because fuck him.

But the only thing more certain than death and taxes is bullies.

They're just words," I tell her. "From small men who are brave on the other side of a keyboard and an Internet handle.

Gwen Proctor is the fourth identity I've had since leaving Wichita. Gina Royal lies dead in the past; I'm not that woman anymore. In fact, I can hardly recognize her now, that weak creature who'd submitted, pretended, smoothed over every ripple of trouble that rose.

but sometimes it's necessary to face your fears to learn from them.

I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in thier magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said could you drop me off down the road, please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know? Maybe backpack across Europe or Asia? I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to

Danger is a state of mind. Farzad informs me. Conquer it, and you ride heaven.

I understand why Laura did what she did. I think I'm supposed to be mad at her, but I'm not. I admire her courage. She saw what the world had to offer and said, No thank you. She saw the lies and hypocrisy and violence and hate and meaningless of it all and she chose another path. She won't live to see her grandchildren, but also won't live to see them suffer.

When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.