Quotes About Courage

Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes

Io so come ci si sente a essere sfigurati e devastati, solo che stavolta tutto questo sta fuori di me. A ogni modo, ho scoperto che combattere è la cosa che mi viene meglio

Swimming naked in broad daylight is a good incentive not to linger.

Everyone," she continues, looking around at all of us, "has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.

I think that's what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don't feel we're allowed to be.

In the old days of Take Back the Night, you could march with other women and feel that all the rapists of the world were small and powerless.

I think having the knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.

So many people don't even know what hits them when they grow up. They feel clobbered over the head the minute the first thing goes wrong, and they spend the rest of their lives trying to avoid pain at all costs. But you all know that avoiding pain is impossible. And I think having that knowledge, plus the experiences you've lived through, make you definitely not fragile. They make you brave.

Toat? lumea, continu? ea, privind în jur spre noi, are ceva de spus. Dar nu toat? lumea poate suporta s? o spun?. Treaba voastr? e s? g?si?i o modalitate.

Everyone has something to say. But not everyone can bear to say it. Your job is to find a way.

Why did a strong woman need to be her own shield

Anyone who ever gave a speech," said Faith, "was once someone who didn't. ...

We can't be afraid of change, or else we'll miss out on everything.

Girls weren't weak. They had a softness sometimes, but not all the time.

Later on, when it wasn't just facts that were required, it got so much harder for her. To have to put yourself out there - your opinions, your essence, the particular substance that churned inside you and made you who you were - both exhausted and frightened Greer.

Throw yourself into new experiences... Why not try to use your 'outside voice'? You know, I sometimes think that the most effective people in the world are introverts who taught themselves how to be extroverts.

She sang along with them, her voice coming out in a loud quaver. But it didn't matter that you quavered; it only mattered that you made yourself heard.

Things can get pretty rough out there," he says. "Can't they? For you girls? You're all a bunch of warriors, aren't you? Lionhearted.

Walking past all the cops, all the detectives, I raise my runner's shirt a few inches, like I'm shaking it loose form my damp skin. I let them all see my stomach, its tautness. I let everyone see I'm not afraid, and that I'm not anything but a silly cheerleader, a feather-bodied sixteen-year-old with no more sense than a marshmellow peep. I let them see I'm not anything. least of all what I am.

time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.

You must never be fearful when what you're doing is right.

Never cry over pain, their mother told them. Those are wasted tears.

People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.