The Goonies Courage Quotes

What could be more terrifying to a kid than the prospect that some older, experienced adult died doing something that you're trying to do? To know that good ol' Chester croaked inside the tunnels, but still have the guts to keep on going…that takes some real courage. Especially since, even after they do find the treasure, they can't really go back to Chester and rub it in his face…which is always the most satisfying part of any accomplishment.

Excuses, excuses, excuses. What would we do without them, right? 

Chunk is definitely the chicken of the bunch, but even he doesn't turn tail and run when the going gets scary. He could have abandoned the rest of the gang at any time—especially when he found the car with the bullet holes and had to fear for his life—but his courage kicked in and urged him back toward the restaurant, where danger surely awaited him. 

And yeah, when he's being interrogated by the Fratellis, Chunk does break down and cry, but…courage takes many forms. Sometimes it's the blubbering kind.

Often, when we're most in need of courage, we talk to ourselves in hopes that we'll make ourselves feel better about a situation. Did you really just hear somebody moving around outside, or was that just a tree moving in the wind? Is that person following you down that dark alley, or are they just going to the same place you're going? Does that vampire want to suck your blood, or is he really just interested in looking at the tag on your shirt to see where you got it? 

Here Chunk tries to tell himself that there's nothing to worry about, even when he knows there's plenty to worry about. It doesn't work, but you have to give him props for the effort.

Okay, it's starting to feel like we're picking on Chunk a little bit. It's not on purpose, we swear.

One of the boy's braver moves comes when he voluntarily introduces himself to the "creature" in the basement. He could have stayed silent and kept to himself, hoping for the best, but instead he acknowledged the (not quite literal) elephant in the room, and bravely got the words out…eventually.

Sometimes our courage doesn't come from our brains, or from our hearts, but from our…nether regions.

All right, so the fact that Brand has the hots for Andy might be motivating his heroic act of leaping off the plank and into the water to rescue the object of his affection. But that doesn't mean it isn't still courageous. He could have hurt himself from the fall, or drowned, or been shot by a Fratelli, so he was risking plenty to save his damsel in distress.