Quotes About Courage

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

Oh, all right, I say, I'll save myself.

For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.

It is June. I am tired of being brave. from "The Truth The Dead Know

DON'T ASK THE QUESTIONS IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE ANSWERS.

All art requires courage.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

It's all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.

The boys wouldn't come to save him. Only Hazel would. And maybe that's why the boys would win.

No one took her seriously because she was small and feathered, a strange little dino-bird, but she had a sickle claw and she was not afraid to use it.

They were princesses once, charged with saving the kingdom from a dragon, and whoever could defeat it would be queen. Daisy used strength, Amelia wits, and Isabelle fell in love with the dragon, because that's the sort of girl she was. She rid the kingdom of the dragon, and then made it its king.

What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?

Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived.

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.

But you do not need to believe in something to be afraid of it.

Sometimes the monsters come harder when you dare stomp. Sometimes you need to bring the whole house down.

Asking for help does not mean that we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence.

KNOWING when to quit may be my greatest victory.

ALL OF US are afraid sometimes, that's human. When our life is ruled by fear, that's obsession.

He liked to introduce himself to his new victims with: "I am Kees Kaptein, the greatest Jew crusher in the Netherlands!

The average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was no more than fifty to sixty flight hours.