Quotes About Courage

A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass

Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

When one's own courage is fixed in his heart, and when his resolution is devoid of doubt, then when the time comes he will of necessity be able to choose the right move. —from Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Be willing to acknowledge that there is a way out and a better life waiting for you. It will motivate you to action.

Take a breath. Observe. Proceed. If you still feel fear about proceeding, choose to say, "Fuck it." "Fuck it" is a declaration of freedom. It announces to the world that nothing can hold you back, not even your fear. Although fear can be crippling at times, it can also be a powerful catalyst for positive change. We are all fearful. There is nothing wrong with it. Recast your fear. It can become a motivating factor. Use it to launch into a higher orbit of creativity.

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? "Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.

Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.

But how could they be tormenters if Branza refused to be tormented by them?

She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it - Urdda wanted some of that boldness.

And here she was, back where terrors could immobilize her, and wonders too, where life might become gulps of strong ale rather than sips of bloom-tea. She did not know whether she was capable of lifting the cup, let alone drinking the contents.

I may not be happy," she said, "but I will be .

Love is never easy or guaranteed. Real love is a leap, you know. As you get older, you learn how hard it is, how hard everything is, how we never know if there's ground beneath our feet, or if we'll be hurt or heartbroken. But we leap anyway. You have to take that leap.

I took that leap, and I was flying

If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You

Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.

When Grinnell approached her, she cried quietly into her hands but let him lead her to the water, where she washed and changed into the calico dress an officer's wife had sent from the fort. Now, free of face paint and hair dye, and wearing Anglo garb, she was ready — or at least dressed — for her return.

Adam," said Mrs. Hoops, as if it took a great deal of courage to bring out the words. "Mamma cannot live in the same house with dogs.

On n'est pas libre tant qu'on désire, qu'on veut, qu'on craint, peut-être tant qu'on vit.

When the end of the world comes, it won't be the ones that cry who survive, but the ones who spit.

Life has a way of turning things around. Those who mourn well know this. As a result, they also live well--with courage and curiosity.

It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.