Quotes About Courage

You only live once, girl," and she'd buckle up for the ride. I suppose that my mind was probably somewhere in Zoeyland when I decided to say yes.

Heroes.... More times than not, they are humble beings: small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

We can't let crazy people dictate our lives.

The greatest shackles we bear in this life are those forged by our own fears.

We fear jumping because we fear falling. We fear being broken. But still, jump we must, because it's only in jumping that we'll ever find someone to catch us.

The cost of love is the risk of losing it." But it's always worth it. After all, in the end, what else is there?

Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

Sometimes life drives you to do entirely new things, things you never believed you could do.

Richard Phillips

And remember this. No victory is certain. No situation is hopeless. When you find yourselves in a hopeless situation, change the rules.

Richard Porter

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

The 442nd, exhausted and undermanned—the casualty list was over two thousand wounded and killed in just four weeks in the Vosges campaign—was

The Lost Battalion's final radio transmission was, "Patrol 442 here. Tell them we love them.

If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You're a human being, with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. If you speak with passion, many of us will listen. We need stories to live, all of us. We live by story. Yours enlarges the circle.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving

Haben die Götter das nicht wunderbar eingerichtet? Kaum hat man eine Nacht lang geschlafen, ist das, was vergangen ist, in die Ferne gerückt, der Kummer und die Sorge des Vortages ist gemildert. Das sanfte Licht der Sonne gibt einem neue Kraft und neuen Mut.«

leaving my past is like jumping of a burning buiding. except jumping is a one way trip. You can't change your mind halfway down

And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

Okay, so I'm the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.

I clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. I'd rather quit. I'd rather be sad. It's too much work.

It starts with bloodshed, always bloodshed, always the same running from something larger than yourself story