Quotes About Courage

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Take up the song; forget the epitaph.

I have learned to fail. And I have had my say.

into the darkness they go, the wise & the lovely

I met the wolf alone and was devoured in peace.

A person who publishes a book wilfully appears before the populace with his pants down. –

For men that are afraid to die Must warm their hands before a lie; The fire that's built of What is Known Will chill the marrow in the bone.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

y que no se acaba el mundo porque una cosa no salga del todo bien, y que ya habría otras oportunidades de demostrar mi cordura y que, si no las había, yo sabría buscármelas.

No me importa nada más, le juro. Me alcanza saberla conmigo en este entuerto. Sabiendo eso, me aguanto el silencio y la distancia y los años y lo que venga. Eso es todo, Ofelia. Disculpe la osadía de escribirle esta carta. Y disculpe la osadía de decirle, en cinco letras imperdonables: la amo.

Bueno, usted también pensará que es una locura. Pero de todas las personas a las que se lo puedo decir y que van a pensar que es una barbaridad prefiero decírselo a usted, porque en el fondo es la única que me importa que lo sepa. No sirve para nada que lo sepa. Y sospecho que es peor, eso de que lo sepa. Pero ya ve, se lo digo igual. Parece que la quiero, Ofelia. Mil perdones, pero me parece que la quiero mucho.

Todos somos cobardes», pensé, «sólo es cuestión de que nos atemoricen lo suficiente».

Pero nada. Si me querés, quedate. Bancate lo que te pasa. Bancátelo todo. Bancátelo por mí. Cuando yo crezca hacé lo que quieras. Pero ahora quedate. Soy chica. Te necesito. Aunque no encuentres otro motivo para quedarte, acá estoy yo, encontrame a mí como motivo. Y si no soy suficiente motivo, andate bien a la mierda.

Let the boy win his spurs.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

We like the taste of freedom ... because we like the smell of danger.

I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.