Quotes About Courage

The person who suffers from a severe trauma disorder must decide between surviving in a barely sublethal misery of numbness and frustration, and taking a chance that may well bring her a better life, but that feels like stupidly issuing an open invitation to the unspeakable horror that waits to consume her alive. And in the manner of the true hero, she must choose to take the risk. For

I cast my lot in with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me.

By tricky I meant I was getting an average of an 85 percent chance of failure and death, and it was only that low because my last diagnostic said my risk assessment module was wonky. (I know, that explains a lot about me.)

In the shows, I saw humans comfort each other all the time at moments like this. I had never wanted that and I still didn't. (Touching while rendering assistance, shielding humans from explosions, etc., is different.) But I was the only one here, so I braced myself and made the ultimate sacrifice. "Uh, you can hug me if you need to.

I am going to have to stop scaring the shit out of myself.

I didn't want to see helpless humans. I'd rather see smart ones rescuing each other.

In the creche, our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for.

TargetControlSystem hit me with everything it had. It told me I would never take the ship. I told it. "Okay you keep the ship. I'll take the planet.

our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

I'd have to change, make myself do things I didn't want to do. Like talk to humans like I was one of them. I'd have to leave the armor behind.

I made my voice firm and warm and gentle, and said, "Dr. Volescu, it's gonna be fine, okay? But you need to get up and come help me get her out of here." That

I'm a shut up or get your head smashed.

Nothing could stop you. Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking. You went on with your dying. —

What is promised is that those with the courage to mourn will find, in the wake of mourning, a strange blessing: that after the sadness is expressed, the pain released into the accepting air, it is as though some love at the heart of life wraps its arms around the mourner and says, There, there, I am with you, I hear you, I understand. Everything's going to be all right.

In the extremity of darkness I will look up and see the stars.

God loves you. He will walk with you all the way, but it's up to you to take the first step.

Don't give up now. If God has brought you this far, He won't leave you. Will you try? Will you give Him a chance to take the fear away?

God loves you. And if God is on your side, what is there to fear? Nothing. Now or ever.

People like to think that bad things only happen to faceless strangers in newspapers, until it happens to them. That's why our faith must be strong now, before we need it.

Never lose hope. There is always a battle going on that you don't see.

Lots of people believe in God. But trusting Him . . . that is the next step.

It takes courage to be happy, you know-even when you keep moving. It takes guts to accept things as they really are and not blame life for being what it is.