Quotes about Courage
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
— Virginia Woolf
I am not going to lie down and weep away a life of care.
— Virginia Woolf
A good day—a bad day—so it goes on. Few people can be so tortured by writing as I am. Only Flaubert I think. Yet I see it now, as a whole. I think I can bring it off, if I only have courage and patience: take each scene quietly: compose: I think it may be a good book. And then—oh when it's finished!
— Virginia Woolf
Though the wind is rough and blowing in their faces, those girls there, striding hand in hand, shouting out a song, seem to feel neither cold nor shame. They are hatless. They triumph.
— Virginia Woolf
I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
— Virginia Woolf
It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.
— Virginia Woolf
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
— Lao Tzu
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
— Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
— Lao Tzu
the world. When the men
— Lauraine Snelling
Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.
— Lauren Bacall
Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
— Laurence Sterne