Quotes About Courage

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal. But I do not. I do not.

There is only one thing I fear now - love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.

Every strong swimmer has a story about nearly drowning.

I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot. - Tiffany

I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone

Feel the chain saw. Be the chain saw.

I felt confident that she wouldn't find out what a chicken I was,because after the comp,if I hadn't gone off the jump,I would be dead of shame.And if I had gone off the jump,I would be just plain dead.

If I'd been you and Manohar had said those things about my first story, I would have knocked his block off." All of this was said with a jovial smile on his cherubic face.

Anything making you feel guilty is definitely worth doing.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are.

CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough

He didn't sound afraid, but I smelled that he was. Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

You can , Scotty – you have to,' Bennie said, with his usual calm, but through his thinning silver hair Alex caught a shimmer of sweat on his crown. 'Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?' Scotty shook his head. 'The goon won.'" (p. 329)

I used to stand at the lectern in my coat and tie, waving my glasses around, urging students to find the courage to become themselves. Then I'd go back to the office and lock the door and put my head down on the desk.

No one leaped to his feet to rescue her. I think we all knew Grace well enough to understand that she would prefer to rescue herself from this predicament, and we were right.

Which is to say that we all have dragons to slay in life. This one is mine. I hope that doing so will provide a model to others on how to find the bravery to be true to oneself, even if it means doing something that seems impossible.

It makes me wonder just how many supposedly brave people in the world are just men and women trying to imitate someone more courageous than themselves.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

You think the worst is behind you, but it's never behind you. In fact, saying something is the worst does not leave room for all the bad stuff that can follow it. You say the pain is nine, but you mean ten. You leave room.

As we grow, we learn to overcome the tendency to run and hide from ourselves and our feelings. When we feel trapped or pressured, it takes great spiritual and emotional strength to be honest.