Quotes About Courage

You hold no horrors for me

The world is full of worse than anyone has yet imagined, and there's only so much room.

The sword sweated red; the swordsman regretted nothing.

I bet you have a nice smile," he says. "Do you know how many people have died trying that?" I ask him.

But there was no version of my life in which I wasn't getting my ass to Svalbard.

I would not be eaten, nor beaten, no skewered and swimmer I, no drowned dinner for a circle of cold companions, gobbling my guts, glutted on my gold.

The fight between them had to be according to the laws of the wild: the stronger would win. For good or for evil. Therefore, it wouldn't be right to attack Nana in one of her weak moments. If you really want to conquer evil, you have to face all its power and potential: you can't use trickery.

Are you afraid of dying, Ferris?' 'I'm afraid of not living.

You talked once of bodily dignity.' 'I've seen heads shot off.

Aren't you afraid of dying, Ferris?' 'I'm afraid of not living.

Feminists are those who dare to break the conspiracy of silence about the oppressive, unequal man-woman relationship and who want to change it.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Well-behaved women never make history.

courage is walking through your fear with faith.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently." —Pema Chödrön

It takes courage to care. It takes passion to stand up for someone or something you believe in and care about.

I want to be the hero," she announced.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

But if I had not gone through that door, Nico Phelps would probably be in jail and Mr. Farrell would not be. And I would still think you can get through life safe and sound and pure- and actually have a life. I wouldn't know the only way not to make a mistake is to never do anything at all.

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that . . . In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. —Albert Camus

You simply don't realize how much pain the human spirit can endure

say, every journey begins with a single step.

Lucy shivered and went on again. 'This is an adventure,' she thought. 'You can't have an adventure if you stop in the middle.