Quotes About Courage

The officer kicked the stool away. This time the rope did not break.

This is life with your head inside the jaws of the beast.

Laurie Halse Anderson

You been too strong," she said firmly. "I know about that. Strong starts out being the right thing. Your hands grow strong enough for your work. Your back strengthens under your burdens. Soon your mind becomes strongest of all; has to be to get through the hard days. " - Serafina Ashes: Seeds of America - Laurie Halse Anderson

Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of facts is the noblest route possible for a human being." Holmes could be surprisingly empathetic at times, and his words now had a gentling effect on the lady.

if she was finished.

Every so often, one encounters a woman of her type who reaches past the distractions of position, pleasure, and society's assumptions to become something greater. And even more rarely, one finds a woman who craves not power, but the chance to create something new.

Faith and fear, they tell me, can't coexist. I try to practice by doing what I'm afraid to do, and I manage (now and then, anyway) by means of faith. Faith that I will do myself more good than harm by the risks I am willing to take as a writer. And faith, finally, that the best service I can do myself is to do the best and most honest work of which I am capable.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself… which of you will first have the courage to raise it?

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

All the broken hearts in the world still beat

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.