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Quotes About Courage

He had the look, it seemed to me, of a man who had awakened one day to find himself clinging to the cattle catcher of an express train: under the circumstances, all one could do was to hang on.
~ Alan Brennert
Rachel smiled, somehow no longer afraid, and went back to bed: surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light.
~ Alan Brennert
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never
~ Alan Brennert
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
~ Alan Cohen
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
~ Alan Cohen
Independent souls find aliveness more attractive than social approval.
~ Alan Cohen
It takes courage to leave behind the world you have been taught is so important, and instead claim what is right for you. Ultimately we must, as Walt Whitman urged, "Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
~ Alan Cohen
Putting your foot down is a prerequisite to stepping ahead
~ Alan Cohen
You've got to sing like you don't need the money Love like you'll never get hurt Dance like there's nobody watching It's got to come from the heart if you want it to work
~ Alan Cohen
Take the smallest step into a new room, and you will gain entrée to vast worlds you could not see when you clung to the familiar. Acknowledge who you are and how you want to live, and the doors to your destiny will swing open before you.
~ Alan Cohen
Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?
~ Alan Cohen
When love and fear meet, only love remains.
~ Alan Cohen
La respuesta al terrorismo, personal y global, se encuentra en su propio lugar de origen: el corazón asustado. El terrorismo terminará cuando nos neguemos a vivir aterrorizados.
~ Alan Cohen
The trooper spoke while staring nervously down the corridor. "Because it's the right thing to do." Poe shook his head, not buying it for a second. "Buddy, if we're gonna do this, we have to be honest with each other." The trooper stared at him for a long moment. "I need a pilot.
~ Alan Dean Foster
As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there's nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality.
~ Alan Dean Foster
You try kicking some butts here and they'll eat your leg right off.
~ Alan Dean Foster
When there is a need for heroes and they are so inconsiderate as not to invent themselves, others take up the task for them.
~ Alan Dean Foster
was certain: His former colleagues would not understand, no matter how hard he tried to explain. No one fled the First Order and lived. The sand sucked at his feet as he stumbled toward the rising smoke. "Poe! Say something if you can hear me! Poe!" He did not expect a response, but he hoped for one. Flame had joined smoke
~ Alan Dean Foster
Despite lack of any training with a lightsaber, Finn was athletic and courageous. In tandem with such traits, the saber made him a formidable fighter.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Despite the difference in size between the girl and her assailants, it was looking as if she was not in need of any outside assistance.
~ Alan Dean Foster
I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it." Ren moved out onto the walkway toward Han. "Will you help me?" "Yes," Han told him. "Anything.
~ Alan Dean Foster
The Tlel might have skinny arms and funny-shaped heads, an overcome Flinx reflected somberly, but there was no disputing the size of their hearts.
~ Alan Dean Foster
I know how to run without you holding my hand!
~ Alan Dean Foster
Well, refusing to continue to fight to the death (of your relationship) is hardly surrendering. Rather, if defeating your partner is also self-defeating, then stopping the fight is both showing the courage to do what is needed to survive and the courage to engage in self-preservation without harming your partner.
~ Alan E. Fruzzetti