Quotes About Courage

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

You only live once—but if you work it right, once is enough. —JOE E. LEWIS

Tu vivi solo una volta, ma se lo fai bene, una volta è abbastanza.

If that's what dying is like, I think I can do it!

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.

Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

Speak you mind, even if your voice shakes.

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind—even if your voice shakes.

I knew you were a good animal, but felt myself to be standing before an enormous mountain, a lifetime of unwillingness to claim what I wanted, to ask for it. Now here you were, your face close to mine, waiting. The words I eventually found may have been Argo , but now I know: there's no substitute for saying them with one's own mouth.

I swam in dangerous waters, both metaphorically and literally. It was not so much that I didn't value my existence but more that I had an insatiable desire to push myself to embrace all that it could offer.

You shall not look at me, she wants to say, you shall not see into me. I will not be yours. How dare you assess me and find me lacking?

Coming so close to death as a young child, only to resurface again into your life, imbued in me for a long time a brand of recklessness, a cavalier or even crazed attitude to risk. It could, I can see, have gone the other way, and made me into a person hindered by fear, hobbled by caution. Instead, I leapt off harbour walls. I walked alone in remote mountains. I took night trains through Europe on my own, arriving in capital cities in the middle of the night with nowhere to stay.

Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it.

Maggie O'Farrell

That had done it. Esme had turned at that one. She had snatched up the protractor of Catriona McFarlane, high priestess of the tittering club, and pointed it at her like a divining rod. 'You know what you are, Catriona McFarlane?' Esme had said. 'You are a sad creature. You are mean-spirited, soulless. You are going to die alone and lonely. Do you hear me?

Grinding her teeth together, she hoped the bastards weren't cheering yet, because it was going to take more than one bullet to kill Jenny Jones.

Maggie Osborne

You think I don't know what you're doing? This is a typical guy stunt. Protect the helpless female, lead the bad guy away and send her scurrying for help." He put a hand on her cheek. "If he caught up to us and something happened to you… I don't know what I'd do." Her lips trembled, though she tried to look angry. "Macho garbage.

Maggie Shayne

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Fear—real, honest-to-God debilitating fear—is an affliction.