Quotes About Courage

Pity was for those who couldn't do anything about it.

You've always been strong. You just had to believe it.

Sometimes a person's got to pick a day to start their life over and never look back.

only one road out here." "Just stay cool," I said. "They're probably

What after all has maintained the human race on this old Globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities and courage to advocate them.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

Fortitude was always to be one of the great virtues for Jane Austen.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I opened my mouth to do some calm explaining. "I'm gay." is what came out.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

bottom half of the card. 'Whoever

Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.]

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken

I had it in my head. I thought I had it in my heart—in my body—but I didn't; not really. I couldn't. It was too scary, like stepping off a cliff without knowing if there was a trampoline below. It meant doing life differently.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Where there is life, there is hope.

we were living and working in harmony, supporting each other, participating in each other's interests, despite the disparity of our chosen subjects, despite attempts to divide us and despite the inevitable difficulties of Stephen's worsening disability. We were very happy. We both gained confidence and courage from the strength of our mutual resolve and from our trust in each other.

what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most

I wonder if they're shielding themselves from me, and not the icy wind. If they knew what I've done… what I'm capable of… what I'm planning to do… they'd do more than cover their necks with scarves. I scowl into the wind. I hate cowardice.

A real man doesn't waver in the face of what needs to be done," he said softly. "There are many acts of war. Many battles that take place off the field with no uniforms or offices in command. Sometimes, battle takes place on your kitchen floor.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

Hope is the hardest love we carry.