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Quotes About Courage

Yet 70,000–90,000 people in Warsaw and the suburbs, or about one-twelfth of the city's population, risked their lives to help neighbors escape. Besides the rescuers and Underground helpers, there were maids, postmen, milkmen, and many others who didn't inquire about extra faces or extra mouths to feed.
~ Diane Ackerman
Seres tan encariñados con su libertad como los seres humanos saben cómo volver a plantear casi cualquier tema. Si hay una cosa en la que realmente nos mostramos magistrales, es en empujar los límites, inventar estrategias, encontrar caminos para rodear las verdades más impías, tomar a la vida por las solapas y sacudirla sin piedad. Es cierto que la vida tiende a devolver los golpes, pero eso nunca ha bastado para deternos.
~ Diane Ackerman
She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true to herself, to follow her heart, even though it meant enduring a lot of self-sacrifice. Intrigued
~ Diane Ackerman
Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x.   adhesions
~ Diane Ackerman
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
~ Diane Arbus
Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it's worth it.
~ Diane Chamberlain
Carry the confidence.
~ Diane Chamberlain
when it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.
~ Diane Chamberlain
When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments.
~ Diane Duane
I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.
~ Diane Duane
I will meet idiots today, went one version of her after-waking meditation, and one of them will probably be me. Iau Hau'hai, Queen of Life and of Making Things Work, grant me of Your courtesy the courage to shred that idiot's ears when I meet her, and then get on with work…for being right is nothing next to having things be right…
~ Diane Duane
NO! came his scream from beyond the wall of trees, hating, raging, desperate. But Nita felt no fear. It was as it had been in the beginning; all his no's had never been able to stand against life's I Am.
~ Diane Duane
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
~ Diane Setterfield
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
~ Diane Setterfield
Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.
~ Diane Setterfield
She made her resolution. In for a penny, in for a pound.
~ Diane Setterfield
her fear of action was overtaken by her fear of inaction.
~ Diane Setterfield
Don't let emotions paralyze you.
~ DiAnn Mills
Death stalked her baby, and she had no bullets to protect him.
~ DiAnn Mills
You can't live when you're afraid of daying.
~ DiAnn Mills
Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back. HERACLITUS
~ Dick Couch
would make it.
~ Dick Couch
I did not do anything. They had a go at me for being who I am That doesn't make sense Conrad said, People don't get attacked just for being who they are Tell that to the Jews Dart said
~ Dick Francis
Dear Momma?Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word nigger again, remember they are advertising my book.
~ Dick Gregory