Suzanne Collins Quotes

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.

We all have wings, but it is up to each one of us to have the courage to fly

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her

A dreamer born is a hero bred.

A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In that journey, he has to discover, in solitude and silence, who he really is."