Quotes About Courage

So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.

That's what love is, this matter of hopeful travel against the usual deeply troubling odds.

I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.

Brave old world.

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting?

no one can be strong all the time, no matter how broad their shoulders!

those who want to beat you down can't succeed unless you give them help!

Life is yours... Claim it...!

And how do you get on?" she added, lowering her voice. "How about the Ogre?" "He has not ground me into bread-flour yet," responded Ruth, smiling.

The hymn of greeting rose in mournful cadence: "Freshie! Freshie! How-de-do! We're all waiting here for you. Hold your head up! Square each shoulder! Thrust your chest out! Do look bolder! Mamma's precious—papa's man— Keep the tears back if you can. Sob! Sob! Sob! It's an awful job— Freshie's leaving home and mo-o-ther!

He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him

some men know from birth that they are expendable they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either

If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things.

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? ("Golden Baby")

To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

To be afraid and to be brave is the best courage of all.

We were, are, relentlessly, pridefully, stoical. We admire fortitude. We were raised to think a person has a right to be upset, in the event of loss or disappointment, but there are ways to acknowledge it without plodding through the embarrassment of a scene. Stop crying. Pull yourself together. Be brave.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by-the-way?