Courage Quotes

"You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em."

- Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller

"Retreat Hell! We've just got here!"

- Attributed to several World War I Marine Corps officers

"Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"

- Captain Henry P. "Jim" Crowe, USMC

"Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue."

- Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

"“The best way out is always through.”"

- Robert Frost

"“You always have two choices — your commitment versus your fear.”"

- Sammy Davis Jr.

"A birth mother puts the needs of her child above the wants of her heart."

- Skye Hardwick

"What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one."

- Barack Obama

"If you have a heart for adoption, don’t let fear stand in the way."

- Doug Chapman

"I say to everybody, ‘Adoption is not for the faint of heart.’"

- Mariska Hargitay

"Foster care is risky. Adoption is risky. Love itself is always risky."

- Orphan Justice

"Adoptees were born to do hard things, starting from birth."

- Zinta K.

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know what you stand for and go for it."

- Venus Williams

"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

- Amelia Earhart

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

"I don't know a woman alive who isn't courageous."

- Reese Witherspoon

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."

- Helen Keller

""A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.""

- Walter Winchell

"It’s good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone."

- Mary-Louise Parker

"I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear."

- Tan Le

"You know something, it’s not easy to break out of your comfort zone. People will tear you down, tell you you shouldn’t have bothered in the first place. But let me tell you something, there’s not much of a difference between a stadium full with cheering fans and an angry crowd screaming abuse at you. They’re both just making a lot of noise. How you take it is up to you. Convince yourself they’re cheering for you. You do that, and someday, they will."

- Glee

"Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

"Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction."

"If you have a heart for adoption, don’t let fear stand in your way."

"It takes a strong heart to bring another child into your family and call them your own."

- Unknown

"Being a parent isn’t about DNA, it’s about showing up, loving hard, and never giving up."

- Unknown

""If you fall, I’ll be there. I’m just going to make sure you don’t get up.""

- Unknown