Quotes About Courage

Do not rush to follow the crowd, it might be a funeral procession

Stop being so practical. Start doing the things you have always wanted to do.

Do it until you are no longer scared.

Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.

No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves.

That if I pretended hard enough nothing was waiting to claim me, nothing ever would.

Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter?

Never be sorry, never be frightened, never be careful - those were the rules of Lacey. Play by the rules, win the game: Never be alone.

I wish the little rivers under the laughing kingfishers in every canyon were fire, and the ocean Fire, and my heart not afraid to go down.

That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.

freak the mighty is the best book I ever read so I recommend it to anyone who likes good books that have different feellings and emotions

Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next. —Samuel Reed

Will it hurt? I ask. Getting your parts replaced? Freak doesn't answer for a while and then he says in his stern, smart voice, Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain. I'm pretty worried about the whole deal, and I go, But why do you want to be the first? Can't someone else be first? Isn't it dangerous? Life is dangerous, Freak says.

We're Freak the Mighty, that's who we are. We're nine feet tall, in case you haven't noticed." That's how it started, really, how we got to be Freak the Mighty, slaying dragons and fools and walking high above the world.

You can take him, right? he asks a couple minutes later. I go, Are you kidding? You can't just fight Blade, you have to fight his gang, too. You mean you couldn't take him and I was giving him lip?

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours.

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Start. Don't look back. If at the end it doesn't meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear

Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.

Can we stand to gaze into the heart of our loss, the preciousness of what we are losing, and not look away?

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.