Courage

Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

My silence is my self-defence.

They can only kill us once.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Carry your wounds with pride, Believe in yourself; amongst greatest of catastrophe' You grew into the being you are And I think that in itself, is certainly enough.

We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

Women who don’t like the rules change the rules.

I am ever a gentle maiden,' she shouted. 'Damn if I'm not.

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!

You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.

He had no ability to give up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to quit, he couldn’t. It wasn’t in him. It never had been.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren't listening. In Holden's navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the Donnager, and three of them had made a conscious decision to do so. Holden promised himself that he'd never make fun of them again.