Quotes About Courage

Taking refuge in the hopeless nature of anything was just a form of cowardice.

We have within us the ability to change for the better and to find dignity as individuals rather than as drones in one mass movement or another. We have the ability to love, the need to be loved, and the willingness to put our own lives on the line to protect those we love

Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.

Imminent death didn't terrify her as much as did the prospect of having lived a life in perpetual retreat, a life that would amount now to so much less than she'd ever hoped,...

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

Love scrubs the worst stains clean. Anyway, there can be no retreat in the face of evil, only resistance. And commitment.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

Over dinner, I had agreed to be her paladin, and no self-respecting paladin would decide on a course of action based on a majority vote of a committee of two.

Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope.

You don't need to like [a gun] to know you got to have it. I don't like gettin' a colonoscopy every five years, but I grit my teeth and drop my drawers and get it done just the same.

Don't mourn the death of monsters, dear. Celebrate the saving of the innocents.

Belief and trust, twined together, can meet any danger.

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.

because those who cower forget how to stand and, in time, can only crawl.

You don't find life by fleeing from it.

Who in all the world ever stands up to really outrageous evil? Not many. Most people satisfy themselves by strongly opposing little evils, like hurtful words and unpopular ideas and gluttony, where the risk of angering violent people is low.

When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it.

Oh, my adorable fry cook, wait till you see them. They're the most hideous, terrifying creatures, and wickedly cunning, and there's ever so much that can go wrong. But what you always know now, what we all know here, is exactly what we're fighting for and how right it is to fight for it.

Humor, faith, courage, compassion – these don't rot and vanish;

I think dogs were put in this world to remind humanity that love, loyalty, devotion, courage, patience, and good humor are the qualities that, with honesty, are the essence of admirable character and the very definition of a life well lived.

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.