Quotes About Courage

If I were going to play the adventuress, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I supposed.

ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. "'She flies with her own wings,'" I translated.

He was a kind fellow, though, Lorenzo. Old Lord Templeton-Vane held a country dance here in our honour. Lorenzo was the only one of us besides Tiberius to ask Elspeth Gresham to stand up with him." He looked around as if to make certain we were not overheard. "I don't like to say it, but that woman scares the life out of me, and there's no two ways about it.

I appreciate your courage in coming in here like this. Truly. I expected some ridiculous, theatrical caper, and instead you're taking what's coming to you like a man.

our motto is Audeo. I dare. Dare to take the life you want in your own two hands and do not let it go, do you hear me?

If you mean to abuse me, let me finish my whiskey first.

It's a comfortable place, mediocrity. Never pushing oneself to the limit to see what you can take. Never staring down your fears, never reaching into yourself to find that last bit of courage. You don't even know what it is that you are made of

the tragic death of a famous lady mountaineer,

The Spartan boy and the fox?" "Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.

It's scary, but I won't let fear stop me.

You just keep doing what your heart tells you to do. That doesn't mean things will end how you want, but they will end how they should.

summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn't working for me when it wasn't working. The world doesn't come crashing down when you speak the truth.

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we "don't know" what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn't. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.

What's that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.