Quotes About Courage

Don't dread. Do.

Janet Buttolph Johnson

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.

War is completely devoid of magic." He grinned again. "But ye may recall I mentioned that a strong arm is sometimes needed to help benevolence along.

I'd bitch slap the devil for you.

You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

I knew then that I would have to be careful. I would have to wear gloves, to leave no trace when I burgled the crammed house of feeling and took for my own use exuberance depression suspicion terror.

Supported by love, any tissue-paper identity may stand like stone.

If you can put fear aside, you're unstoppable.

FEAR IS THE ONE EMOTION THAT UNLEASHED CAN DESTROY ANYTHING AND ANYONE.

Never underestimate small things, Captain, they have to be meaner than larger ones to survive.

The real dragon haunted my head and heart.

But it is Charlie's philosophy that a first-rate man should be willing to take at least some difficult jobs with a high chance of failure. And just as he decries making money "with lily white hands," he believes that giving time, talent, and risking his reputation is just as important as contributing money.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. The Bible, Proverbs

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Janette Rallison

Robin Hood might not have existed. Maybe there never was a band of Merry Men waiting in Sherwood Forest for King Richard's return. But I'd like to think it happened. We've seen him in other times and places. Some people still stand up for what's right, some people do protect the helpless, some people fight for justice – and that's what makes the story of Robin Hood true.