Quotes About Courage

She was a woman in the age of chivalry, when women were supposed to be the objects of a kind of worship, every knight being sworn to succor and help them in need and trouble. And the "Chivalry of England shamefully used and destroyed her; the Chivalry of France deserted and sold her." [27]

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.

Bravely spoken, mother! cried her son: these sentiments are worthy of a governor. And if it chance that any of the maids should break her neck; the cook get tipsy, or set the chimney on fire; the butler, for joy, let all the malmsey run upon the floor, or down his throat, yon shall not hear a word of such small tricks. If, indeed, an earthquake were to overset the house! that, my dear mother, could not be kept secret.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Come when thou will: I shall meet thee bravely.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Heroes don't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they don't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.

Just in case it... doesn't work. I want you to know, Delilah. You have been the biggest adventure of my life.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. —JAMES BALDWIN

Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.

And he wonders if maybe Nina is right; if a superhero is nothing but an ordinary person who believes that she cannot fail.

Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.

The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my weight accelerates, head-over-heels. Then I think, falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us hope. It meant that no matter what was happening in this camp, no matter how many Jews they managed to round up and kill, there were still more of us out there: living lives, falling in love, getting married, assuming that tomorrow would come.

we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.

I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.

She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language. Love. Help. Rape. Stop. Then.

With my heart racing, I ran in the other direction; leaving the rest of this rescue to people who actually want to be heroes.