Quotes About Bravery

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

It is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

fortune always favors the bold.

Orellana's achievement would later be called one of the world's greatest explorations, "something more than a journey, and more like a miraculous event.

People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

As for bravery: dead on the fields are millions who would have feared to wear a hat in inappropriate season, so I judged that brave warriors are dirt cheap as compared with untimid civilians.

Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.

Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick!

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the

If man will strike, strike through the mask!

Pensar é audácia

No quiero a ningún hombre en mi barco que no tenga miedo de la ballena», decía Starbuck. Con esto parecía insinuar no sólo que el valor más seguro y más útil es el que surge de una justa estimación del peligro que se afronta, sino también que un hombre que ignora el miedo es compañero mucho más riesgoso que un cobarde. —Sí

el que no conoce el miedo resulta mucho más peligroso que un cobarde para sus compañeros.

Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.

Yes; all these brave houses and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up hither from the bottom of the sea. Can Herr Alexander perform a feat like that?

A través de todos sus fantasmagóricos tatuajes, yo creía ver las huellas de un corazón sencillo y honrado; y en sus grandes ojos profundos, ferozmente negros y valientes, parecía haber muestras de un espíritu que se atrevería contra mil diablos.

Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one;

I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. "Aye, aye," said

Soon ranging up by his flask, Stubb, firmly planting his knee in the clumsy cleat, darted dart after dart into the flying fish; at the word of command, the boat alternately sterning out of the way of the whale's horrible wallow, and then ranging up from another fling.

Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whaleboat, when thus hung in hangman's nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of death, with a halter around every neck, as you may say.

I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward

no man who rises to command of a United States naval ship can possibly be a coward. And

Please tell Field Marshal Goring for me, to stick his Swiss bank account up his fat ass.