Courage Quote by Lev Grossman

“It was so hard to be courageous. So hard to be a coward. Going forward or going back seemed equally awful. So much easier…

— Avi

“He could either move forward or go back. Simple choices in life. Choices were always simple: yes or no, backward or forward, right or…

— Charles Dean

“Step forward or step back. Each beat of his heart swayed him between decisions. A beat of courage. A beat of fear. Once the…

— Tricia Mingerink

“He was out to get back everything he'd lost; there was no end to his loss; this thing would drag on forever.”

— Jack Kerouac

“This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to…

— Joseph Conrad

“He kept expecting something to happen, some outside force to sweep in and change everything and take him in some new direction, give him…

— Hannah Tinti

“Maybe he still wasn't worthy of their surrender. He'd watched plenty of men make the wrong choices when faced with such power. But he…

— Kit Rocha

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“I needed to go so he could bring me back. Show me my place in life. In this big, bad world. And once he…

— Jay Crownover

“He was almost there, ready to hang up his wings, to leave behind everyone who mattered to him. To descend into a pit of…

— Jay Allan

“Intellectually, he knew he wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice himself or his happiness to save everyone else. But that didn’t stop the tiny voice at…

— James S.A. Corey

“But he could not return; he was afraid of what lay ahead, he dreaded the unknown, but it was easier to walk forwards than…

— Ruskin Bond