Quotes About Courage

Hattie had learned, over the years, to put her own fears in a box at the back of her mind, to stand tall and brave, to be resilient to whatever enemy presented itself.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

You're facing your demons. You'll come out stronger.

Do you have a potent way to sustain your sense of meaning, courage, peace, and awe?

We did not make this world...and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it.

People forget that war is not simply about regimentals and anthems and brave soldiers. It is also about heartbreak and death and real people

Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don't be afraid to leave the castle. It's a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader

You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

Let's go. Let's count for something. Let's get off that ledge.

It's my experience that the people who are most afraid are the ones who hide behind mean and threatening words.

Theodore Finch, April 3. "Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

If anyone can make it to another world, it's Theodore Finch.

it's time I fear.

I want to say It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more likable if you just acted human.

It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check you in.

I think of something my mom used to say, about how as scary as it is to go after dreams, it's even scarier not to.

Sometimes in the darkest places, we find the brightest light.

Better to be the hunter than the hunted. Even if you're hunting yourself.

Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!

You need shoving, not pushing.

You're no hero. You're a coward. You only saved them from yourself.

If there was one thing I hated in this world, it was folks who told you that you couldn't do something.