Quotes About Courage

If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off.

Get ready: The truth is too valuable to put safety first. Get set: No amount of exposure is unbearable unless you let it be. Go: If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off.

But when I allowed myself to think of her, I remembered the delicacy of her brown body under her orange robe, and I drew courage from knowing that she had needed nothing to guide her but her determined heart. Had there ever been a man who could claim to be as fearless? She had never even held the heavy swords and sharp daggers that gave soldiers their swagger. Khadijeh may have been a slave, but in her heart, she was a lion-woman.

Winning does not tempt that man. His growth is this: to be defeated by ever greater forces. Book of Images

Never Yet Spoken I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared to wish for may for once spring clear without my contriving. From The Book of Hours I, 12

Love imposes obligations and these are constant. An intermittent lover is no use to a person of dignity and courage.

But the fact that for the first time in her life she had managed to convince herself of her rights might embolden her to assert her wishes again.

Cynicism is what passes for insight when courage is lacking.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

No one should have the power to make you feel small. Remember, you are the one with the power to create your happiness.

I'm going to stop worrying about storms. As you said, they're coming whether we like it or not. But as long as you're around, I can weather them all.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Perhaps fear in the abstract is worse than facing the immediate reality.' Vera had still seemed preoccupied by morbid thoughts, but her voice had been cheerful. She probably wasn't afraid of anything. Joe hadn't bothered answering.

It's just that she always seemed indestructible. I never saw her tired or upset or vulnerable. She was one of those women who can face anything the world has to throw at her.

I texted to ask if she wanted to try for a quiet chat again.' Jack paused. 'She said she was fine. Nothing I can't deal with. That was classic Shirley. She thought she could take on the world all by herself.' He looked up at Holly. 'Trouble was, none of the rest of us could keep up with her.

She didn't sound scared. Excited, if anything. The invulnerability of the young.

Vera had never been bothered by post-mortems. Dead people couldn't hurt you; it was the living you should be frightened of.

Perhaps fear in the abstract is worse than facing the immediate reality.