Quotes About Courage

Expect the worst, because the worst is so often true, but have belief, have faith, have compassion.

the madness of exchanging mediocre but safe happiness for great happiness but possible disaster.

Just walk up to your hell & give it a push. Run through it & i'll be waiting on the other side.

Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.

And I don't want to hurt anymore. I want to be someone who makes it through

Hell no. You're what saved you, kid. Not divine intervention.

Lauraine Snelling

Lauraine Snelling

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.

It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

Believe this, Bitch.

Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

It means black kitten, I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten? They're wererats, Ares, I said. He frowned at me. They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.