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Quotes About Courage

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome
~ Unknown
Hold on, be strong, keep pushing through the rough patches in life, because eventually pain ends.
~ Unknown
Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation.
~ Unknown
Some of us need to learn to be heroes to ourselves before we can be that for others.
~ Unknown
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
~ Unknown
But it struck me then that at the root of all those reasons was a sort of fear. And I have never been a coward.
~ Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller
~ Unknown
I brought them to my mouth. But my courage failed. What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know.
~ Madeline Miller
There is nothing I can teach you. You know all that Heracles knew, and more. You are the greatest warrior of your generation, and all the generations before.
~ Madeline Miller
Tell me,' I said, 'how do you know that your father is not right about my poisons? How do you know I will not drug you where you sit?' 'I do not.' 'Yet you would dare to stay?' 'I dare anything,' he said.
~ Madeline Miller
Men will hear of your skill, and they will wish for you to fight their wars." He paused. "What will you answer?" "I do not know," Achilles said. "That is an answer for now. It will not be good enough later," Chiron said.
~ Madeline Miller
He does not mean it does not hurt. He does not mean we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller
Every day makes me old," she said. "I do not have your years to waste. As for that safety, I do not want it. It is only more chains. Let them come at me if they dare.
~ Madeline Miller
I'd like to be a hero, though.
~ Madeline Miller
But there was something in me that was sick of fear and awe, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me.
~ Madeline Miller
Si uno te acechara, debes darle algo que desee más que a ti»,
~ Madeline Miller
She fell in love with him, and to save his life smuggled him a sword and taught him the way through the Labyrinth, which she had learned from Daedalus himself.
~ Madeline Miller
I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next.
~ Madeline Miller
When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. I opened my mouth, but it was too late. "I will go," he said. "I will go to Troy." The
~ Madeline Miller
Rien est un espace vide, alors que l'air est ce qui remplit tout le reste. C'est la respiration, la vie et le courage, les mots que l'ont dit.
~ Madeline Miller
My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This and this and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender or too slow. This and this and this!
~ Madeline Miller
There was a wildness in me, of hope and terror.
~ Madeline Miller
And I have never been a coward.
~ Madeline Miller
I can break a hundred youths and send their bodies back to wailing mothers. I will tear your entails and eat them for my lunch. I fixed my gaze on his. "Try," I said.
~ Madeline Miller