Quotes About Courage

She didn't like being stuck indoors because of a bully.

If you want to get out of that crib, stand up and be an American.

drown or blow up.

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It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

She is bone-chilled and a bit battered, but she breathes.

I had a choice: to quail, or to harden. I hardened.

Stand up and take a hit! Commit publicly to cooperation.

Jeanne M. Lee

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

it takes real courage to go where you have not gone before.

he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Don't Regret... You Don't Know till You Go.

Mama, what kept you moving forward through droughts, wild animals, loneliness? We had no choice. Sadness was as dangerous as panthers and bears. The wilderness needs your whole attention.

pek küstahca konu?tunuz. Zafer Tanr?'n?n onu bah?etti?i ki?inin olacakt?r." Noyan Baycu

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.

You don't have to trust people not to betray you or break your heart or steal your purse; you just trust them to be who they are. Once you understand fear, get a little distance from it and see what it really is and how it operates in the world, then you can understand everything about people. In an eyes-closed being, everything flows from fear; good and bad, courage and cowardice, love and hate, all flow from the same well.