Quotes About Courage

If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent with no nerve is like the sound of one hand clapping.

The secret of success lies in this simple sentence: Why not?

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

Flying through an army, sire," said Athos, "in all countries in the world is called charging.

it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.

Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un cœur patient.

by degrees they waxed more and more angry by their own shouts, and as they were not able to understand how any one could have courage without showing it by cries, they attributed the silence of the dragoons to pusillanimity, and advanced one step towards the prison, with all the turbulent mob following in their wake.

A young man—we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; a Don Quixote without his corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown;

D'Artagnan looked his friend earnestly in the face. You know one thing, continued the comte, leaning upon the arm of the captain; you know that in the course of my life I have been afraid of but few things. Well! I have an incessant gnawing, insurmountable fear that an hour will come in which I shall hold the dead body of that boy in my arms.

Follow me, then," said the abbe, as he re-entered the subterranean passage, in which he soon disappeared, followed by Dantes.

Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts;

Vivid, pues, y sed dichosos, hijos queridos de mi corazón, y no olvidéis nunca que hasta el día en que Dios se digne descifrar el porvenir al hombre, toda la sabiduría humana estará resumida en dos palabras: ¡Confiar y esperar! Vuestro amigo, Edmundo Dantes, Conde de Montecristo.

Ho sempre avuto più paura di una penna, di una bottiglietta d'inchiostro e di un foglio di carta che non di una spada o di una pistola.

Ä°stediÄŸin kadar sarhoÅŸ ol; ÅŸaraptan korkanlara yaz?k, çünkü onlar içlerindeki kimi kötü düÅŸünceleri ÅŸarab?n ortaya ç?karaca??ndan korkarlar.

there is no nation but the French that can smile even in the face of grim Death himself.

Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures. I have taught you how to handle a sword; you have thews of iron, a wrist of steel. Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting.

No ho l'uniforme, ma ho lo spirito. Il mio cuore è moschettiere e mi trascina.

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

Tuntemattomat vaarat herättävätkin eniten pelkoa.

We are judges of wounds, we old soldiers

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you.

There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons, continued the sailor;