Quotes About Courage

A person can get up and leave her life. The world is that big.

Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them? When Russian prisoners are chained by threes and fours to fences while German privates tuck live grenades in their pockets and run?

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.'

We shall march onwards, Even if everything crashes down in pieces; For today the nation hears us, And tomorrow the world!

An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges, the overflow finally giving way - he could not longer suffer his own cowardice.

trying and failing to summon the courage to go out.

You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing.

They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you Werner. I think you'll do something great. -All The Light We Cannot See

You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing." - Madam Manec

Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even.

If we don't talk to the thing we are afraid of, it becomes the thing we hope to kill.

every timidity eventually turns into regret.

Every second, walking those two hundred meters, is like leaping into very cold water, in that first instant when the body goes into shock, and everything you are, everything you call your life, disintegrates for an instant, and all you have around you is the water and the cold, your heart trying to send splinters through a block of ice.

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

Don't be pushed by your problems, swim in them

You can't be a bird, then cry about not being able to fly.

I am saying rather that men did not behave as men are wont to do, in part because of the essential change in political bodies, where everyone senses that protection at all costs, rather than the good and bloody battle, is the rule of the day. As soon as someone says, "You want 200,000 people to die," the chance for a discussion is over, because the rejoinder, "You are speaking like a coward and an ass," is no longer possible.

The general was sufficiently impressed by the young man to ask him to go back to Italy with him. His back to the wall, Atticus for once in his life refused to do a powerful man's bidding. "No, please, I beg you," he replied. "I left Italy to avoid fighting you alongside those you want to lead me against." Sulla liked his candor and let the matter drop.

For him, bravery was not an assertion of collective defiance and solidarity among colleagues but a solitary, obstinate act of will.

Caesar was a commander of genius; he was decisive, brave, and, even in the heat of battle capable of creative thinking

Has even a mediocre fighter ever let out a groan or changed the expression on his face? Who of them has disgraced himself, I don't just mean when he was on his feet, but when falling to the ground? And, once fallen, who has drawn in his neck when ordered to submit to the sword?

it must sail away as soon as possible, even if doing so meant risking battle with Sextus.

You must show yourself a man now and consider what you ought to do, and implement your plans as fortune and opportunity allow.