Quotes About Courage

If you cannot fit into the mould, then you must step out of it

In every book she'd ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden their resolve.

We shall have no leaders left before long!" the pastor cried bitterly. "We are not abandoned," the doctor told him quietly. "Neither is one man indispensable, however much we may mourn him personally. Each of us does as much as he can and when he disappears someone else finds the courage to take his place.

Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?" asked a gray female pup. "Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he's scared of the raghnaid?

I'll say whatever I want. I'm not a book. You can't burn me!

Set your wings upon the sea wind Set your eyes upon the stream Feel the billow of the updraft And believe in your dream Know the mercy of these waters Know the safety of the sky Hear the voices in the distance And believe - they will not lie.

No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!

If that animal claims not to be frightened, then that animal is a liar. The real hero is the animal who fights even though scared. That is courage. There can be no courage without fear.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. — James Baldwin

I have jumped for a tree, jumped for a raven, jumped for a cougar. I shall jump for the sun!

Without hope it is nearly impossible to live. Hope is the air that our spirits breathe.

Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman.

Then Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. "Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave.

Anything worth doing has risks." Hortense paused. "And believe me, this is worth doing.

For those who believe.

For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole.

it is better for us to fight for something than to live for nothing.

Hope is never a foolish thing—although others will tell you it is.

Fear was alive, with a heartbeat of its own.

although boldness of action is always called for, it must be tempered by wisdom and restraint, and too often it is not.

Gylf, you can practice forever and still never fly if you do not really believe you can.

Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves." NYC in 1979

Even if we die, if we have to become monsters and everyone hates us, we have to read the book because it will teach us how to avoid the alligator's jaws, the wolves who wait in the forest, the huge snakes, and how to become birds.