Quotes About Courage

The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

Allowables I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small spider Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened.

Don't bother about what people say, mija," he told me. "Let them talk. They only prove their ignorance." I know my father's right. I also know that words have teeth. Sometimes I get tired of the bite marks.

At the edge of heartbreak, we both take a leap into the unknown...That's when we see it, a buoy callled friendship.

Do something about it, or shut up.

I'd pretend their words were water and let them roll off my back. Now, I'm nobody's duck, and their words stung a whole lot more than water.

The day she clips her way out of her cocoon, the only sound she plans to hear is a deafening cheer.

I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own.

Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I'm not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I'll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.

Why let Angela call me something that I'm not? Or let her tease me? Bad enough the kids at school kick my heart around

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

Skydive naked from an aeroplane....

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

In a battle, some soldiers of Guru Gobind Singh saw a Sikh named Ghanaya giving water to the enemy. They went to the Guru with their complaint. Ghanaya was called and questioned. Ghanaya's response was that he had not helped the enemy: as he went around the battlefield, he saw no friend or foe but only the Guru's face.

Step up and don't be afraid

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

Siccome l'uomo russo nei momenti decisivi conserva la presenza di spirito, e fa quel che c'è da fare senza inoltrarsi in altri ragionamenti, così, prendendo a destra al primo incrocio, egli gridò: "Forza su, rispettabili amici", e si lanciò al galoppo senza preoccuparsi troppo di pensare a dove conducesse la strada che aveva preso.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.