Quotes About Courage

She had tried running away from her problems but now knew she would have to face them.

My college coach, Joe Paterno at Penn State, once told me to stop thinking so much. "Buckle your chin strap and hit somebody. Play fast and hard, and something good will happen. Don't be afraid to lose.

bring on your minions. I'm always outnumbered but never outgunned.

I don't want to be superior to anyone for being afraid. We already have a culture built on that.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

I was out of the war because men like this were too scared to talk about dick.

unpossessive. Before his parents left, Al once again paid him the highest compliment about his relationship with me. "You boys are the best friends I've ever seen," he said. "You're like Damon and Pythias." It's a long way for a man to come who couldn't look me in the face for a year after Roger finally told him he was gay. A century

When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.

And thus I wonder about so many gay men I've met since, pillars of the community, out to everyone else but Mom, who still refer to their lovers as something between a roommate and a valet. Just who is being protected here, and who thinks queer is wrong?

For it turned out there were closets within the closet, and a lingering self-hatred that even the joy of connection couldn't solve. What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.

What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

When you know who you are, it's harder for people to fuck with you.

It takes a special, ironic kind of person to use their own impending death as an impetus to finally live.

When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

The time will come when the mind will no longer fear the things it believes in; then man will be ashamed to have remained on the defensive for so long.

What would your life be like if you had the courage and wisdom to take charge? What if you made up your mind that from now on for the rest of your life, you alone would decide how you were going to feel? What kind of emotional life would you choose for yourself?

people conducting themselves as the person God wants them to be in spite of the people, situations and circumstances that surround them.

Lacking sufficient courage ourselves, we borrow courage from courageous people and from our Higher Power, and it works.