Quotes About Courage

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air

Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

It was hard enough to get to this point, to figure out what my true purpose is and who I am, and then when I found the courage to start living it, I thought the hard work was done!

to hell with literature we want something redblooded

King Christ,this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dared to call Himself a man.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple

And to top everything he's got this problem he can't let her know how he feels: What-he's shy? Shy! Tell me who in this goddamn world is shy? Young, old, the lame and halt. Clobber you over the head with what they feel. Oh Man I wish just once in my long fucked-up life someone had come up to me who was too shy to tell me what they thought of me...

Truth is, if the drought don't get you and the blizzards don't get you, that's when some devil with liquor in his soul and a gun in his claw will ride you down and clean you out.

The only hope we have is that we

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

Angel became part of Claudia's story about finding herself, about how the greatest adventure lies not in running away but in looking inside, and the greatest discovery is not in finding out who made a statue but in finding out what makes you.

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.

Cojones: testicles; a valorous bull fighter is said to be plentifully equipped with these. In a cowardly bullfighter they are said to be absent.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.