Quotes About Courage

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won't move from the worst that life offers...

Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

It's a twisted version of Green Eggs and Ham: I could panic in a train! I could panic on a plane! I could panic on the stairs—I could panic anywhere!

the sometimes brave but searching girl….

Turned up or turned down, the feeling is permanent. She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.

Here is what happens when your mother worries: You become secretly worried. Anxiety plays in your background like bad grocery store music. You pace and count stuff and wake at night, your heart beating too fast. You pretend to be brave, and do stuff to prove you're not a scared person like she is.

What should never be forgotten is this: Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

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.

Hope was a beacon but it also had the strength of a bully.

Courage, traveler. Weird. It's coming from inside her. Hold your little map and shout to the darkness, it says. Shout this: You are nothing, darkness, against something as old as love. Shout: I will walk right through you, darkness, because I am, and I will be. This boldness-she's felt it before. In the truck, when she first saw Billy. No, before that, when she was brave, so brave, and brought Anna to the shore. This is how you save yourself?

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

Fight for your life, it's the only one you've go

Hope is the first step to healing

Vulnerability is what heals us.

This is an epiphany moment, I can either sink or swim

So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young.

For a man to challenge the darkness he need only be armed with a single spark.

Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.

I'd rather be a fool than afraid.

You always have it. It's always there.

When life gives you a second chance, don't just run with it…fly.

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.