Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I always thought I'm kind of a tough girl.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

I'm a very strong woman.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

Student life taught me a lesson - never bow down your head. Be straightforward and bold in whatever you do.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

Be brave and be fearless, and for God's sake, stand up for yourself.

When I was younger, I was always that person that loved to get stuck in. When my mum and grandma used to come and watch me, I used to make sure that I wouldn't let anybody push me around and not let anybody bully me.

Sometimes people need to think of themselves as lions or tigers. Even panthers.

I always hold my head up high.

Ultimately I'm quite a strong person.

Respect all fear none my pride is everything

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.