Courage Quote by Pat Conroy

“He was a paradox, a walking contradiction. How he could perform such a violent act without hesitation in one moment and be gentle with…

— Bella Forrest

“He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.”

— T.H. White

“I’d witnessed how brutal this boy could be—he’d nearly beaten the man to death in front of me. Yet he was now touching my…

— Kresley Cole

“As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do…

— Lloyd Alexander

“A finely tuned spike of pain speared through his skull, signalling a detectable breach in his conditioning. He didn't want to stop his decent…

— Nalini Singh

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the…

— Charles Dickens

“He must have been very brave and very strong, at the end, not to do himself in.”

— Jon Krakauer

“... in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience;”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn’t—if he stood back up with…

— Robert Jordan

“This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told…

— Constance O'Banyon

“It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute…

— Iris Murdoch