Quotes About Courage

I recognized that I was small and soft; I wanted to believe in people - that they were kind and good, and given the chance, everything would turn out okay - but bad things do happen, and sometimes the best you can do is swim through them, focus, and years later say, Ya, I know that feeling, when some smart ass asks whether you've ever been so scared you wanted to pee your pants.

Fear and logic belong together.

Fine. You're Lucious Landrum and I'm Annie Oakley. Can I go now?

To love is to risk the pain of loss. But it's a risk that's worth taking.

He'll help you see that life's troubles, as well as the joys, are all His gifts. You just need the courage to open each and every gift and be thankful for the lessons they each contain." Martha

He never promised life's journey wouldn't be hard. He just promised to take the journey with you. If you'll let Him. And if you do, He'll help you see that life's troubles, as well as the joys, are all His gifts. You just need the courage to open each and every gift and be thankful for the lessons they each contain.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

the knowledge of true danger may cure us of false fears

no courage in the world can hold out in the face of neglect, solitude and persecution.

You spit on a petty thief, but you can't withhold a sort of respect from a great criminal. His courage bowls you over. His brutality makes you shudder. What you value in everything is consistency of character.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

Write the unpublishable...and then publish it.

The feeling that he was afraid of me was invigorating.

Sands vanquished a rush of fear and said emphatically, "I'm your man, sir." "Get in there. Have intercourse with snakes. Eat human flesh. Learn everything." "That's pretty broad.

Get out of that comfortable rut.

Break the daily and weekly routine you have set. Get out of that comfortable route.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.

sometimes we have to find the courage to take off our shoes and feel it all. Even the bad stuff.

That if you believe, really believe, and if your strategy is sound, and if you're willing to leave everything you've got on the field of battle to win the day"—he held his arms wide—"you can do anything." She'd

And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So watch out.

You told yourself it was okay—because that's what you had to do to cross a body of water—but it wasn't.

All right', Bubba said. '... Just remember, the only sin in battle is hesitation. So don't fucking hesitate.

Dennis Lehane