Quotes About Courage

In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities that they only dreamed of.

Oliver, she says. You can do this. I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someone believes in you wholeheartedly, you start to believe in yourself as well.

Vonita, God rest her soul, used to say that if men were the ones to get pregnant, abortion would probably be a sacrament. The Super Bowl halftime show would celebrate it. Men who had terminated pregnancies would be asked to stand and be applauded at church for the courage to make that decision. Viagra would be sold with a coupon for three free abortions.

Being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to.

Once you are close enough to see it coming, there's nothing to do but weather the storm.

Be history, instead of just watching it happen from the sidelines.  Try something new, even if it scares you to death.  Learn because you love to learn, not because you're being tested.  Don't whine – there is always someone who's having a worse day than you are.  Be honest with yourself, and you'll never have anything to hide.   

courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

Your father used to say that being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to Queen Maureen said And he used to tell me he was scared all the time.

Don't go fighting my battles for me.

She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.

Because you make me believe there are things worth fighting for.

I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow-- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

As she turns her head and focuses on me, I lift her palm to my mouth, press a kiss in its center. You are so brave, I tell her, and then I smile. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. No Mommy, she says. You'd be sick.

It was tough to admit to yourself that someone else had more courage than you would in the same situation, or that it was possible to love someone in a way that you had not personally experienced.

No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The

I wondered what the hell had convinced me to live at the end of someone else's life rather than live my own

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

I didn't want to be treated like him," Josie said, answering her mother, when what she really meant was, I wasn't brave enough.

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

In every fairy tale, the only way out is to keep running forward. To never look back.

Either you dissolve into a puddle, or you take the blow on the cheek and force yourself to lift your face again for more.