Quotes About Courage

I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

If she liked him so darn much, she should have done something about it. Taken some real action.

You can't go back," he says. "Just look forward. You're doing the right thing now.

hesitated, thinking of all the ways I could change the subject, then made a spur-of-the-moment decision that I was finished with small talk and surface conversation and diversions and lies of any kind, no matter how small. At least for right now, as I sat at my parents' dining room table, with a kind man who had once loved me, and who still prayed to God before supper.

Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?

I tally all the reasons why not, all the ways it could hurt. Yet I watch myself shrug coolly and hear myself murmur, "Why not?

reckless abandon and know that there will be someone

Look on the bright side. Be grateful for what you have. Count your blessings. Optimism is the foundation of courage.

I needed to have a thick skin.

If you would truly rather be dead than go on living the way you do, you have nothing to lose by trying to change things, have you? Britta said, carefully keeping any trace of pity from her voice. There is more to life than Illica, you now. The world is wide, and full of wonders.

If you are the only one afraid...you are the only one with sense

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

But no, I used all my brave up.

You're not afraid of monsters, are you?" It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am.

One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.

Was that hard-hearted? Well, so what if it was. She'd been through enough to harden anyone. It was none of her choosing; all she'd done was clung on to her life like a spar from a shipwreck. Better to be hardened than crushed to nothing.

Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws.

Nie mo?esz pozwoli? by fakt, ?e kto? chce twojej ?mierci, uniemo?liwi? ci wypicie twojej herbaty.

In Room I was safe and Outside is the scary.

All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night

Scared is what you're feeling, says Ma, but brave is what you're doing.

Better to drown in the surf than stand idly by the shore.

When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.

The thing is to take your life in your hands.