Quotes about Courage

I dropped to the ground and swept my hand across the smooth yellow tile. Oh, Father, I cried. There was no shame in your confusion. Just as there had been no shame in your father's before you. No shame in the fear, or in the fear of his father before him. There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. It was the silence that betrayed us.

When we've been told we're not ready," I said, "or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

Move on. Walk forward into the light.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

I don't know how you go on, but I really hope you'll keep doing it. That you won't give up esperanza. I thought of that last night. Esperanza is all you get, no second chances. What you have to do is try and think of reasons to stick it out.

Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.

If fight or flight is the choice, it's way easier to fly.

People had to manage terrible truths.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.