Quotes About Courage

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are.

Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.

The first step in spending time alone is to admit how afraid of it we are.

those who can most truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come. —PERICLES

To consciously become close is a courageous form of unilateral disarmament, a chancing of our arm and our love, a willingness to hazard our affections and an unconscious declaration that we might be equal to the inevitable loss that the vulnerability of being close will bring.

THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD (excerpt) The sound of a bell still reverberating, or a blackbird calling from a corner of a field. Asking you to wake into this life or inviting you deeper to one that waits. Either way takes courage, either way wants you to be nothing but that self that is no self at all, wants you to walk to the place where you find you already know how to give every last thing away.

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.

I'll never shake the hand of someone I might be fighting against in wartime.

The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

Keep driving," said a soft voice in my ear. "She will not bite if you keep driving." Fuck that. Fuck that idea like the fucking Captain of the Thai Fuck Team fucking at the fucking Tour de Fuck.

You can't focus on death, or failure. Otherwise you're surrendering greatness to all the people too dumb to contemplate it.

I reached out and, with a small move of my body, did something that would change my life forever. I gently moved Amy aside and stepped down ahead of her, putting myself between her and the shadows.

I glanced at Badly Drawn Jesus, then pulled the gun from my pocket. On Judgment Day, I'd be able to proudly state that when I thought the hordes of Hell were coming for a local girl, I stood ready to shoot at them with a small-caliber pistol.

I'm scared David" "That's good, because there's lots to be afraid of

We're like one German soldier alone on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, holding a sharp stick.

Who would bring light must endure burning.

What is a human being, then?' 'A seed.' 'A ... seed?' 'An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree.

evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light.

El Señor guarde a los niños! Pues todos ellos tienen su Predicador que los persigue por el sombrío río del miedo y la imposibilidad de expresar lo que sienten y las puertas cerradas. Todos son mudos y están solos, porque no hay palabras para expresar el miedo de un niño, ni oídos que le presten atención, y, si las hubiera, nadie las entendería aunque las oyera. ¡El Señor guarde a los niños! Los niños lo soportan todo y superan cualquier obstáculo.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.

Know your right, then go ahead.

You may all go to he'll and I will go to Texas.

You may all go to hell, and I'll go to Texas.