Quotes About Courage

The internet is not for sissies.

Writers need to be fearless. There is just no other way. --Paul

I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

If writers had a little more guts, maybe they wouldn't be writers.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

Life is difficult and prayer would be the best gift I could give them.

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

Paula Danziger

I feel like a little kid in a toy shop. All those books. I've always wanted to be a writer, but before I met Ms. Finney, Barbara, I was afraid to tell anyone. I think it's some kind of miracle that all we have to work with is the twenty-six letters of the alphabet. And they turn into words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books, conversations, plays. It's just incredible to me.

I imagine there's a timid animal inside me...When it's afraid, I feel it tremble. It can't hear. It only knows the fear it feels. It doesn't have memory or an idea of the future. It lives in the present—the right now—and I try to remember it is only a part of myself, a small frightened thing I can pity. When I'm able to do that, something happens. The animal grows less afraid.

Danny had figured out a long time ago that he'd get further in life if he didn't spend time worrying about being embarrassed about stuff. This night

How I can I speak God's peace to them inside the church if I act scared when I walk past them outside?

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy.

When I saw the rats the first time, I wanted to drop my basket where it was and run away, but we weren t rich enough for symbolic gestures. So I walked.

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy." She was referring to Jock, but her words made me think of other things, too. "Are you happy, Karen?" "Not yet. But I mean to be.

I saw him on the cover of Life magazine and heard about the wars he covered bravely and the other feats - the world-class fishing, the big-game hunting in Africa, the drinking enough to embalm a man twice his size.The myth he was creating out of his own life was big enough to take it for a time - but under this, I knew he was still lonely.

It's important to test your nerve occasionally,' she said. 'It keeps you young.

I wasn't raised to acknowledge my own feelings, let alone stick up for myself like that.

The world needs an army of Wandas—strong, sarcastic, unafraid women who say what they think and act straightforwardly, without apology or permission. Women who roar instead of flinch.

Maybe that's the secret to surviving all sorts of trouble, knowing who you are apart from it, I mean.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. —Frederick Buechner